Sally Field
Sally Field
Sally Margaret Fieldis an American film and television actress and director. Field began her career in television, starring on the sitcoms Gidgetand The Flying Nun. She ventured into film with Smokey and the Banditand later Norma Rae, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She later received Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Absence of Maliceand Kiss Me Goodbye, before receiving her second Oscar for Best Actress for Places in the Heart. Field received further...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth6 November 1946
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.
I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.
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.
To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.
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.
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.
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.
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.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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.
I was shaking all over. I didn't like it and I felt that way when we shot the sequences, but I thought my character felt that way.
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.