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Sally Field [1946-0] American

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Actress, Film actress

Sally Margaret Field is an American film and television actress and director. Field began her career in television, starring on the sitcoms Gidget and The Flying Nun.

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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.	Time	101
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.	Good, Sad	102
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.		103
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.		104
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.		105
Change is never easy.		106
I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!		107
There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.		108
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'		109
'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.		110
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'	Movies	111
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.		112
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.		113
When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.		114
I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.	Sad	115
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.		116
I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.		117
In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.		118
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.		119
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.		123
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!		124
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.		125
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.		126
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.		201
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.		202
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.		203
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.		204
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.		205
You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.		206
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.		207
Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.		208
People really don't understand what actors do.		209
I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.		210
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.		211
I came from a real working-class show business family.		212
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.		213
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.		214
I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.		215
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.		216
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.		217
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.		218
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.		219
Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.		220
I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.		221
I've had such an odd career.		222
I always wanted to be a great actor.		223
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.		224
I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.		225
I've done some good work and some not-good work.		226
I haven't had an orthodox career.		301
I really like cable T.V.		302
I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.		303

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