Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Sally Field
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Sally Field.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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.
You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
I haven't had an orthodox career.
I've had such an odd career.
Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
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.
I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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.
I've done some good work and some not-good work.
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.
I really like cable T.V.
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.
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
People really don't understand what actors do.
There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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.
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.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Change is never easy.
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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.
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.
I always wanted to be a great actor.
I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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.
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.
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.
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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!
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.
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.
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.
'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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.
Fear is where the information is.
Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.
To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.
Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.
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