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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.
Sally Field
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Sally Field
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
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Sally Margaret Field
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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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My agent said, You aren't good enough for movies. I said, You're fired.
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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 think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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Get over it. Get on with your life.
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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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My last son is leaving to go to college my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
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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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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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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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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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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.
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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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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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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 think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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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 wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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