Sally Field - biography

Biography

Sally Field is best-known for the following films:

Sally Field Quotes

“I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.”

“There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don’t have anything to do with my nose.”

“Change is never easy.”

“My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’”

“In all honesty, I don’t understand what good friendship does, what purpose. I don’t understand it.”

“The first time, I hardly felt it because it was all so new. But now I feel it... You like me. You like me!”

“When I won my first one, I was so contained - numb. All I could think of was: don’t fall down. I didn’t have any underwear on.”

“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.”

“But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.”

“Frivolous, mindless entertainment - that’s valuable when it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. At least in my country, it is.”

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

“I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!”

“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!”

“I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That’s like fighting with ghosts.”

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

“I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.”

“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.”

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

“I’ve never had my heart broken.”

“If I hadn’t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.”

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”

“Jack Mahoney married my mother when I was about five or six. So, for a period, I had Tarzan as a father. But ‘Jocko’ was Tarzan even before he played Tarzan.”

“Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.”

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

“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.”

“When you’re old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.”

“You keep thinking you’ve reached a level where it’s going to be bliss, where people start giving you all these wonderful things and how can you choose between all this brilliance - and it just ain’t so.”

“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.”

Filmography

The Actor