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.

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.

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 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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Fear is where the information is.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

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've done some good work and some not-good work.

Change is never easy.

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.

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.