Sally Field Quotes

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Sally Field

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 6, 1946

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

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

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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 so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

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Change is never easy.

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

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

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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!

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

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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.

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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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I've had such an odd career.

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

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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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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.

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

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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

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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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