You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.