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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.

Sally Field

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Sally Field
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Pasadena
California
Sally Margaret Field
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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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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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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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.
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My last son is leaving to go to college my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
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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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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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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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There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.
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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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Fear is where the information is.
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I really like cable T.V.
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I've done some good work and some not-good work.
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If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.
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