Top 80 Sally Field Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You like me, You really like me!!!”

— Sally Field

2. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”

— Sally Field

3. “Change is never easy.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

5. “The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.”

— Sally Field

6. “If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any God-damned wars in the first place!”

— Sally Field

7. “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.”

— Sally Field

8. “Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. ‘Oh, I’m just a mom,’ you hear women say. ‘Just’ a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It’s mentorship, it’s inspirational, it’s our hope for the future.”

— Sally Field

9. “To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.”

— Sally Field

10. “I had to let my ego go a long time ago.”

— Sally Field

11. “I’ve never had my heart broken.”

— Sally Field

12. “Oh my,” I looked up into the face of Cary Grant. All I could say was “Oh God.” Without missing a beat, he said, “Oh God is right,” then gestured toward my bulging midsection, adding, “Does he know about this, Sister?”

— Sally Field

13. “My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.”

— Sally Field

14. “I’ve never had my heart broken. It’s a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don’t think it says anything good about me at all.”

— Sally Field

15. “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.”

— Sally Field

16. “I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!”

— Sally Field

17. “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.”

— Sally Field

18. “I am such a notorious hermit – almost pathological. And, I’m not a hoarder. But that’s just a symptom of things that I do feel.”

— Sally Field

19. “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.”

— Sally Field

20. “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.”

— Sally Field

21. “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.”

— Sally Field

22. “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.”

— Sally Field

23. “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.”

— Sally Field

24. “If I hadn’t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.”

— Sally Field

25. “When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

27. “When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, ‘Congratulations, you have an actor!’”

— Sally Field

28. “Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.”

— Sally Field

29. “Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven’t done yet. What you want to accomplish.”

— Sally Field

30. “All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.”

— Sally Field

31. “I MUST go to what desperately frightens me – the chance of failure.”

— Sally Field

32. “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!”

— Sally Field

33. “You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.”

— Sally Field

34. “There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I’m not.”

— Sally Field

35. “Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.”

— Sally Field

36. “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.”

— Sally Field

37. “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”

— Sally Field

38. “I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.”

— Sally Field

39. “I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That’s like fighting with ghosts.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

42. “I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I’m not purebred.”

— Sally Field

43. “I haven’t had an orthodox career.”

— Sally Field

44. “I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.”

— Sally Field

45. “I’m highly emotional, so I’m highly aware of humiliation.”

— Sally Field

46. “I think when you’re reaching outside of something you’re comfortable doing, you’re just heading towards a light. I don’t think you stop to justify it.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

48. “The opportunities I’ve had to play really complex characters – which haven’t been a lot, but some – you never get over them.”

— Sally Field

49. “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.”

— Sally Field

50. “I came from a real working-class show business family.”

— Sally Field