Famous quotes by Sally Field:

"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 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."

"I've never held a gun. I've never shot a gun. I don't ever want to do it again."

"It's put ... together into a cohesive, chronological line of events."

"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 . . ."

"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

"I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!"

"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

"You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes."

"I had to let my ego go a long time ago."

"'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers."

"I have never been beautiful in cliche terms."

"I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal."

"The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work."

"The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience."

"Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis."

"I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person."

"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."