Sally Field Quotes

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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'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?

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.

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

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

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

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

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

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'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 think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

Fear is where the information is.

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.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

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

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.

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 was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

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.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

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.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

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.

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

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

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.

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'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.