Quotes by Sally Field

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
• I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
• I've never had my heart broken.
• If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
• 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.
• My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
• 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.
• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
• 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 was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
• My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
• I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
• 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.
• 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 came from a real working-class show business family.
• I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
• 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 joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
• 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 think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
• I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
• 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.
• Change is never easy.
• When in doubt, add more glitter.