Spacek Had To Work Hard To Persuade Director De Palma To Engage Her For The Role.After Rubbing Vaseline

“Spacek had to work hard to persuade director de Palma to engage her for the role. After rubbing Vaseline into her hair and donning an old sailor dress her mother made for her as a child, Spacek turned up at the audition with the odds against her, but won the part.”

What I’m certain I don’t want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I’d had more nerve.

Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (via appalachian-appreciation)

“I was more insecure when I was 20 than I am at 47. At 47 it’s like, “You need me to put on a crazy dress with mirrors? Yeah, sure. I’m going to work the shit out of this!” I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s, like, you give less fucks. [..] Aging is the greatest. It really gives you more space to be that person in the mirrored dress who has always been inside.”  —

Sandra Oh for InStyle magazine