Quotes from Sally Field

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

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.

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 so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I've had such an odd career.

In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

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!

I haven't had an orthodox career.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

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.

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.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone elses eyes.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.