Quotes

[on her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress] The business has been good to me. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this.

[Parade magazine, April 1, 2001] I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

[on why she did not want to appear in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)] I asked if they could use some backflashes instead. I enjoyed the sequel, but hated my role in the first film. I was awful.

My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

I think that the fact that Carrie is experiencing the ultimate [acceptance] being prom queen. I mean, so she is so high and so, you know, feeling the love. And then to have that humiliation right then-it's quite a trigger...I think that your teenage years...everyone feels unworthy some days...I think that that was the thing about Carrie people related.

Being prom queen as a student growing up was really a wonderful thing for me. You know, had I known that Carrie would come along at that time, I would have been more in the moment.

[on shooting the final scene of 'Carrie'] Jack [Fisk] dug the hole, Brian yelled 'Grab!' and that was my cue. Those rocks were pumice and they were heavy. It was the last day of shooting and I was all dolled up, and they wanted my stand-in to do it. But my hand is my hand! It was claustrophobic, but very exciting. I couldn't see, and what with the blood being slippery, I almost broke Amy's arm! The rocks scratched my arm to bits all the way down, but I wouldn't have missed that for the world!