Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

I don't take characters home with me.

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.