Quotes By Sally Field

I've never had my heart broken.

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

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

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

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

I haven't had an orthodox career.

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.

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

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

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

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 had to let my ego go a long time ago.

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

I always wanted to be a great actor.

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.

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.

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

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.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

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.

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