Quotes from Sally Field

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I really like cable T.V.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

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.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

Fear is where the information is.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

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.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

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.

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.

Get over it. Get on with your life.

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.