Kim Fields Quotes

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

I wanted to play a domestic help all my life... Because I wanted to break my image.

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.