JJ FIELD Quotes

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

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

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

I've never had my heart broken.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.

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.

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."

Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

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

Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.

Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

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

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

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

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

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.

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 vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully

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.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

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.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

I was determined not to remain poor.

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.

Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.

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

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

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