Latest Sally Field Quotes from Interviews

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• I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

  Sally Field

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

• The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

  Sally Field

  People, Criticize

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

• It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

  Sally Field

  Criticism

• I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

  Sally Field

  Peaceful, Feelings, Excited

• When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.

  Sally Field

  Tears, Scene, Humiliating

• We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

  Sally Field

  Fighting, Behavior

• Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

  Sally Field

  People

• I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.

  Sally Field

  Personality, Odd, Nobility

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

• I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

  Sally Field

  Lonely, People, Being Lonely

• I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

  Sally Field

  School, Acting, Sane

  Source: www.oprah.com

• You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

  Sally Field

  Trying, Weighing

  "Sally Field Talks Unrequited Love, Wild Wardrobe in "Doris". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. March 8, 2016.

• 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

  Character, Opportunity, Emotional

• 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

  Costumes, Wardrobe, Western

• 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

  Thinking, Important, Minutes

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Thinking About You, Want, Done

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

  Sally Field

  Waiting, Needs, World

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

  Sally Field

  Writing, People, Commodity

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Sleep, People, Mind

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Age, Statistics, Matter

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Fall, Reality, People

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  May, Littles, Neurotic

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

  Sally Field

  Character, Trying, Actors

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Thinking, Light, Doing You

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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

  Sally Field

  Understanding, Way, Isolated

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

• 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

  Notorious, Hermits, Symptoms

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.