Sally Field Quotes
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I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.
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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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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.
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The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.
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If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.
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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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It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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Fear is where the information is.
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You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.
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When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.
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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 so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.
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Change is never easy.
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There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.
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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.
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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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In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.
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I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.
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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 didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
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I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.
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And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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