Sally Field Quotes

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.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

What other people think about me is not my business.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.

I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.

We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.