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

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Sally Field
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Pasadena
California
Sally Margaret Field
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What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
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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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People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
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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 so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.
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I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.
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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.
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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've had such an odd career.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.
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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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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.
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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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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
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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 it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter
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Get over it. Get on with your life.
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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.
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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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