Top 80 Sally Field Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn’t allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.”

— Sally Field

52. “The problem can’t be my mother’s fault because I can’t live without her, so it must be mine. My mother is already perfect, she has to be, and I am not. I can fix me. I can make myself better.”

— Sally Field

53. “Get over it. Get on with your life.”

— Sally Field

54. “How can you change who you are and learn what it takes to get up, over and over, if you can’t allow yourself to feel how much it hurts to be knocked down?”

— Sally Field

55. “I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.”

— Sally Field

56. “There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.”

— Sally Field

57. “I had found someone to love, to pour my heart into, someone I felt frightened of, and I was seeking to be loved the only way I knew how: by disappearing.”

— Sally Field

58. “As I look back right now, I realize that it was all of those mindless, repetitive tasks I was forced to endure day after day, the getting up and doing every scene the best I could, over and over, that gave me a kind of “miles in the saddle.” They strengthened muscles not located in my body but in my heart – muscles not easy to access and certainly not fun. But easy is overrated and fun is extremely relative.”

— Sally Field

59. “You can’t help but feel all the human-rights issues.”

— Sally Field

60. “Why it moves so fast now when it used to move so painfully slow. It has to do with the percentage of your life that each day represents. When you’ve lived 25,915 days, one twenty-four-hour span is a very small part of the whole picture. But when you’ve only got 10,220 days under your belt, each day is a bigger portion of that existence.”

— Sally Field

61. “Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

63. “All of them with wounds that wouldn’t heal because no one acknowledged they were bleeding, and yet each of them needing the other to be near.”

— Sally Field

64. “What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.”

— Sally Field

65. “Most important, my mother was also given the chance to study acting with the brilliant Charles Laughton, eventually becoming a member of his acting company, the Charles Laughton Players, performing Chekhov and Shakespeare in a small theater on Beverly Boulevard, on the outskirts of Hollywood. Not only did she find herself onstage with Mr. Laughton, but she had the amazing good fortune to be directed by him as well. These moments stayed alive in her always.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

67. “I’m so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I’ve always been a real physical person.”

— Sally Field

68. “What I do know is this: How you care for your child from the time they are born until they’re eighteen is important, but who you are as a person and parent for as long as you live also counts, and counts one hell of a lot.”

— Sally Field

69. “Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they’re getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.”

— Sally Field

70. “All of them with wounds that wouldn’t heal because no one acknowledged they were bleeding, and yet each of them needing the other to be near. And that – I realize – is how this story fits into my life. These generations of women, weaving a pattern into a lifelong garment, unconsciously handed down from mother to daughter to granddaughter to me.”

— Sally Field

71. “I didn’t back into being an actor, I was born one.”

— Sally Field

72. “I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.”

— Sally Field

73. “I’m looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.”

— Sally Field

74. “Fear is where the information is.”

— Sally Field

75. “You know, people really don’t understand what actors do.”

— Sally Field

76. “If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they’ve influenced you.”

— Sally Field

77. “You were magical.” I whispered back, “I was?” Then everything was dark again and I could barely see her at all. “What does that mean?” I asked. “Just that.” Another flash of headlights lit up the front seat and I could see her mouth edging toward a smile, the light bleaching her beautiful face white, then slowly fading to black.”

— Sally Field

78. “I’m an actor. I’m trying to be the character and do what they’re doing.”

— Sally Field

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

— Sally Field

80. “You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you’re just the same.”

— Sally Field

81. “I’ve done some good work and some not-good work.”

— Sally Field

82. “I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.”

— Sally Field

83. “The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he’s in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor – well, I can’t think of any good thing.”

— Sally Field

84. “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.”

— Sally Field

85. “I drove back in the pouring rain, blurry and dazed buy knowing I had a father who cared enough to make sure my stools were soft. What the hell, it was better than nothing.”

— Sally Field

86. “There’s always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it’s pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.”

— Sally Field

87. “Do you need the ones you love to let you go before you can leave?”

— Sally Field

88. “I always wanted to be a great actor.”

— Sally Field