64+ Sally Field Quotes On Education, Beauty And Friendship

Sally Field is an American actress who has been in the entertainment industry since the 1960s. She has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She has starred in such films as Forrest Gump, Places in the Heart, and Steel Magnolias. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sally Field on love, education, beauty.

Top 10 Sally Field Quotes

1. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
2. I've never had my heart broken.
3. What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
4. Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
5. The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.
6. Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.
7. I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Sally Field Short Quotes

• I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
• Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
• I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.
• To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.
• I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.
• Fear is where the information is.
• I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
• My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
• I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

Sally Field Quotes About Career

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! — Sally Field

I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality. — Sally Field

I've had such an odd career. — Sally Field

Sally Field Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 — Sally Field

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future. — Sally Field

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers. — Sally Field

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

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

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

Get over it. Get on with your life. — Sally Field

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!" — Sally Field

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely? — Sally Field

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad. — Sally Field

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down. — Sally Field

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence. — Sally Field

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true. — Sally Field

I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood. — Sally Field

I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else. — Sally Field

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same. — Sally Field

Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do. — Sally Field

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation. — Sally Field

When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important. — Sally Field

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind. — Sally Field

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over. — Sally Field

I wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great. — Sally Field

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. — Sally Field

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. — Sally Field

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn. — Sally Field

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place. — Sally Field

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? — Sally Field

Life Lessons by Sally Field

1. Sally Field has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. She has shown us that with hard work, dedication and a positive attitude, anything is possible.
2. She has also shown us the importance of staying true to ourselves and our values, even when faced with adversity.
3. Finally, Sally Field has demonstrated the power of resilience and perseverance in the face of obstacles, inspiring us to keep going and never give up.