Sally Field
Sally Field
Sally Margaret Fieldis an American film and television actress and director. Field began her career in television, starring on the sitcoms Gidgetand The Flying Nun. She ventured into film with Smokey and the Banditand later Norma Rae, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She later received Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Absence of Maliceand Kiss Me Goodbye, before receiving her second Oscar for Best Actress for Places in the Heart. Field received further...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth6 November 1946
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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.
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.
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.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
I've never held a gun. I've never shot a gun. I don't ever want to do it again.
I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours, but mostly they were in and out of the picture. There were times to go hide and times to come out and play.
I've allowed myself to be so busy with my grandchildren, my sons, and my family, and work, that I really don't know where I would fit anyone in.
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
I was shaking all over. I didn't like it and I felt that way when we shot the sequences, but I thought my character felt that way.