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Sally Field
American
Actress
About the author
There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
I've never had my heart broken.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Heart
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Time
#Eyes
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
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.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Now
#Present
#Zone
#Behavior
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Being
#Living
#Mother
#College
#Son
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,
American
Actress
#Want
#Film
#People
#Poor
#Television
#Comedy
#Business
#Snobbery
When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#May
#Old
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Sense
#Eyes
I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Time
#Drama
#Schools
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Movies
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Fact
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,
American
Actress
#Kids
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,
American
Actress
#Waiting
I came from a real working-class show business family.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Family
#Business
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Right
#Now
#Career
#Respect
#First
#Fact
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Work
#Actors
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Fighting
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.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Want
#People
#Motive
#Actor
I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Heart
I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#First
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,
American
Actress
#Years
#Losing
#Danger
#Grave
Change is never easy.
Sally Field,
American
Actress
#Change