Sally Field Quotes
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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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.
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I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
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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.
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I really like cable T.V.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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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.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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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.
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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
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I've done some good work and some not-good work.
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.