Sally Field Quotes

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

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.

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

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

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.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

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

Fear is where the information is.

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

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.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.

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.

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.

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.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

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.

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.

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

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

Change is never easy.

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

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.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.