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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!

Sally Field

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Sally Field
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
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I've done some good work and some not-good work.
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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.
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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.
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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 it as seriously as I did.
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I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.
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It took me getting to my 50s before I could say Whatever! about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.
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I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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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.
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We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.
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The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
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I've had such an odd career.
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Change is never easy.
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I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.
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