“When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, ‘Congratulations, you have an actor!’”
― Sally Field
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
― Sally Field
“I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.”
― Sally Field
“The roles… the deep roles that I’ve gotten to play have turned my course. They’ve changed my life experience.”
― Sally Field
“There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don’t have anything to do with my nose.”
― Sally Field
“You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.”
― Sally Field
“But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.”
― Sally Field
“Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.”
― Sally Field
“I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That’s like fighting with ghosts.”
― Sally Field
“I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.”
― Sally Field
“But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.”
― Sally Field
“I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
― Sally Field
“I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.”
― Sally Field
“I’m so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I’ve always been a real physical person.”
― Sally Field
“I’ve never had my heart broken. It’s a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don’t think it says anything good about me at all.”
― Sally Field
“There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.”
― Sally Field
“I’m looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.”
― Sally Field
“I’d been kind of a hiccup in my parents’ lives. They lost track of me and I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.”
― Sally Field
“I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!”
― Sally Field
“My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’”
― Sally Field
“Change is never easy.”
― Sally Field
“I came from a real working-class show business family.”
― Sally Field
“I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do.”
― Sally Field
“I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.”
― Sally Field
“I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.”
― Sally Field
“I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren’t taking it as seriously as I did.”
― Sally Field
“If I hadn’t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.”
― Sally Field
“My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.”
― Sally Field
“When you’re old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.”
― Sally Field
“I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
― Sally Field
“There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it’s like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren’t any films about it and there very few TV series about it.”
― Sally Field
“’Forrest Gump’ is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.”
― Sally Field
“Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.”
― Sally Field
“I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.”
― Sally Field
“I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.”
― Sally Field
“I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work – getting to do the work. And I don’t really care where it is: whether it’s on stage or on television or in film.”
― Sally Field
“I had to let my ego go a long time ago.”
― Sally Field
“You just do the best you can with what you’ve got… and sometimes magic strikes.”
― Sally Field
“I’ve had such an odd career.”
― Sally Field
“I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.”
― Sally Field
“I always wanted to be a great actor.”
― Sally Field
“The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.”
― Sally Field
“The opportunities I’ve had to play really complex characters – which haven’t been a lot, but some – you never get over them.”
― Sally Field
“You know, people really don’t understand what actors do.”
― Sally Field
“I’ve done some good work and some not-good work.”
― Sally Field
“You can’t help but feel all the human-rights issues.”
― Sally Field
“I haven’t had an orthodox career.”
― Sally Field
“The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work – getting to do the work. And I don’t really care where it is: whether it’s on stage or on television or in film.”
― Sally Field
“Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.”
― Sally Field
“I really like cable T.V.”
― Sally Field
“I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.”
― Sally Field
“I don’t want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven’t played than I care if my neck looks like someone’s bedroom curtains.”
― Sally Field
“I wouldn’t mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.”
― Sally Field
“In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.”
― Sally Field
“People really don’t understand what actors do.”
― Sally Field
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