Sally Field Quotes

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• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
• 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…
• Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
• People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
• 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…
• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
• 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…
• I've never had my heart broken.
• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
• My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
• What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
• 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…
• If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any God-damned wars in the first place!
• Get over it. Get on with your life.
• I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was…
• I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
• Fear is where the information is.
• 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.
• I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.
• I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious…

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