Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Sally Field - Page 2

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

I wouldnt 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 don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

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'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

Get over it. Get on with your life.

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.