Sally Field Net Worth

Sally Field's Quotes

• My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."
• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"
• [upon accepting her 1985 Best Actress Oscar] This means so much more to me this time, I don't know why. I think the first time I hardly felt it because it was all too new. But I want to say "Thank you" to you. I haven't had an orthodox career. And I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it. But this time I feel it. And I can't deny the fact that you like me . . . right now . . . you like me. Thank you.
• My country is still so repressed. Our idea of what is sexual is blonde hair, long legs, 22 years old. It has nothing to do with humour, intelligence, warmth, everything to do with teeth and cleavage.
• Norma Rae (1979) is inspirational because it's the type of film where one person can be heard.

Interesting Facts about Sally Field

1. Good friends with Goldie Hawn and longtime friends with Pat Mitchell.
2. Auditioned for the role of Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967).
3. Daughter of actress Margaret Field. Ex-stepdaughter of actor Jock Mahoney.
4. Daughter of Richard Dryden Field (1914-1993), a US Army captain, and Margaret Field (1922-2011), a contract player with Paramount Pictures who starred in B movies. They were married from 1942 until 1950.
5. Paternal granddaughter of Fleet (1881-1948) and Jane (née Fox) Field (1882-1961). Both were born and raised in the state of Pennsylvania.
6. Has four grandchildren; Isabel (b. 1998) and Sophie (b. 2001) via son Peter Craig, and Noah (b. 2006) and Colin (b. 2014) via son Eli Craig.
7. Was asked to play the lead role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987).
8. Mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s television series The Fall Guy (1981).
9. Protested alongside fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slaying of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. [February 2004]
10. Graduate of Birmingham High School, Van Nuys, California, Class of 1964 with Michael Ovitz, who later became her agent. Field's class voted her "Class Clown". Another fellow student was Cindy Williams.
11. Her Oscar-winning performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) was ranked #15 on the American Film Institute's heroes list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
12. Co-starred with Burt Reynolds in four films: Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).
13. Turned down the lead role of Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980).
14. Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989.
15. Half-sister of Princess O'Mahoney.
16. While filming the scene in Norma Rae (1979) where she is dragged out to the police car, she struggled and kicked so hard that she broke the rib of one of the men playing a police officer.
17. Her performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) is ranked #73 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
18. Has three films on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: Places in the Heart (1984) at #95, Forrest Gump (1994) at #37, and Norma Rae (1979) at #16.
19. In Punchline (1988), she plays Tom Hanks' love interest. In Forrest Gump (1994), they play mother and son.
20. Has an older brother, Richard Dryden Field, a physicist.