Quotes By Sally Field

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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've had such an odd career.

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

I always wanted to be a great actor.

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

Change is never easy.