A biography for Sally Fieldhasn’t been written yet.
“When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'”
“You know, people really don't understand what actors do.”
“The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.”
“I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.”
“I came from a real working-class show business family.”
“You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'”
“I had to let my ego go a long time ago.”
“I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.”
“You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.”
“I haven't had an orthodox career.”
“I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.”