Sally Field Quotes

Acting is such a weird job.

Being actors is a strange job.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

Acting is a very strange job.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

One of the joys about acting is researching.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'