Sally Field Quotes

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Sally Field

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 6, 1946

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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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

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

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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

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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.

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My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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

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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

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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 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 had to let my ego go a long time ago.

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I always wanted to be a great actor.

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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

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