Sally Field Quotes

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

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

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

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

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

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

I drove back in the pouring rain, blurry and dazed buy knowing I had a father who cared enough to make sure my stools were soft. What the hell, it was better than nothing.

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.

People really don't understand what actors do.

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

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

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

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

The roles ... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I've had such an odd career.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

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

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

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

Get over it. Get on with your life.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

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

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

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.

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

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

I wouldn't 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 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.

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

I haven't had an orthodox career.

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.

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

Fear is where the information is.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

Change is never easy.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

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.

I really like cable T.V.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any God-damned wars in the first place!

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.

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.

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.