164 Quotes by Sally Field

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.

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

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!

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

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.

I haven’t had an orthodox career.

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.

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

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