Sally Field Quotes

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

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 have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.