Sally Field Quotes


"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."
- Sally Field
(Related: Heart)

"If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever."
- Sally Field
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Eyes)

"Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis."
- 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
(Related: Behavior, Now, Present, Zone)

"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."
- Sally Field
(Related: Mother, Son, Being, College, Living)

"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
(Related: Business, People, Comedy, Film, Poor, Snobbery, Television, Want)

"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
(Related: May, Old)

"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
(Related: Time, Eyes, Sense)

"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Drama, Schools)

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
- Sally Field
(Related: Movies)

"I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!"
- Sally Field
(Related: Fact)

"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
(Related: Kids)

"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
(Related: Waiting)

"I came from a real working-class show business family."
- Sally Field
(Related: Business, Family)

"I have never been beautiful in cliche terms."
- 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
(Related: Time, Career, Fact, First, Now, Respect, Right)

"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
- Sally Field
(Related: Work, Actors)

"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."
- Sally Field
(Related: Fighting)

"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
(Related: People, Actor, Motive, Want)

"I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few."
- Sally Field
(Related: Heart)

"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet."
- Sally Field
(Related: First)

"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
(Related: Danger, Grave, Losing, Years)

"Change is never easy."
- Sally Field
(Related: Change)