Sally Field Quotes

I've crafted a really weird career for myself.

My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

Our career had a sort of funny shape.

My career path is the weirdest thing. I was a hairdresser, I worked at Marvel for a few months, and then I was signed to a DC exclusive for eight years.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.