Quotes By Sally Field

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

I came from a real working-class show business family.

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

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

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 always wanted to be a great actor.

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

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

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Change is never easy.

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.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

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

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

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.

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

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've had such an odd career.

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