Sally Field Quotes

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

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

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

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

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.

Change is never easy.

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

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

I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.

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.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

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.

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 mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

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.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

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

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

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.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

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

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.

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

Fear is where the information is.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

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?

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

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 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.

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

Get over it. Get on with your life.

I've had such an odd career.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.