Top 55 Quotes by Sally Field

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

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.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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

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 came from a real working-class show business family.

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.

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.

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