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
I came from a real working-class show business family.
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.
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.
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.
What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.