Quote of the Week- Sissy Spacek

Today, we are featuring quotes from two Academy Award winners who happened to co-star with Jack Lemmon (1925-2001, who is quoted on our other blog "The Daily Vampire") in the highly political 1982 thriller "Missing" about an American journalist who vanished in Chile during a right-wing coup which lead to the rise of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).

Spacek currently lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Va. She has been active in state politics as she has lobbied the General Assembly to consider the links between uranium mining and cancer as a highly controversial uranium mining project is being considered at the Coles Hill Farm in Pittsylvania County, north of Danville, Va. The subject was profiled in an excellent article by Andrew Rice in the current issue of "The New Republic."

Spacek is originally from Quitman, Tex., where she was homecoming queen at Quitman High School. After gaining prominence for her excellent performance in "Badlands"
(1973), Spacek became one of the very few actresses ever nominated for Best Actress for a performance in a horror film "Carrie" (1976).

But, the film she would Oscar for would turn out to be "Coal Miner's Daughter"
(1980). Spacek won over an impressive list of nominees including Gena Rowlands who gave a brilliant performance of her own in "Gloria" that year.

Interestingly enough, both Spacek and Rowlands have been featured guests at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville over the years. The festival, which be held from Nov. 4-7, 2010, announced today that it would drop its long-standing programming policy of presenting films based on a similar theme.


Spacek has recieved a total of six nominations, including one for her outstanding role in the contemporary thriller "In the Bedroom" (2001).

Here is her quote:

"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them."