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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Goldie is like a neon light and I am not.
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.
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.
I've never held a gun. I've never shot a gun. I don't ever want to do it again.
I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours, but mostly they were in and out of the picture. There were times to go hide and times to come out and play.
I've allowed myself to be so busy with my grandchildren, my sons, and my family, and work, that I really don't know where I would fit anyone in.
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
It's put ... together into a cohesive, chronological line of events.
'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.