Sally Field Quotes

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

People treated others crassly, looked down on the poor, and adored the rich

I am in the business of entertainment.

Wild globalization has helped some people much, but has hurt most.

Inside the intelligentsia, the pressure of public opinion is overwhelming. Nationalistic loyalty towards the proletariat, and most vicious theoretical hatred of the bourgeoisie, can and often do co-exist with ordinary snobbishness in everyday life.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.

That's my business, show business.

I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

On 'Sunny,' we're not trying to be a family show. We're literally trying to make the funniest show possible.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

Self-examination - when the whole world around you is pressuring that and challenging you - is very, very hard. Looking at a whole structure - in my case, let us say of snobbery, basking in certain privileges, marks of what appear to be superiority - that's ugly to look at.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

I told my agent that I wouldn't do TV unless it was Ryan Murphy, 'House of Cards,' or HBO.

There's always a conversation about business when it comes to the entertainment industry.

My very first show that I ever did was a show called 'Then Came You'. It became a huge hit - no, it didn't. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman's best friend. I was 27 years old.