76-year-old famous Hollywood star, Sally Field, is one of the greatest actresses in the industry. We remember her from the iconic movies Forrest Gump, Steel Magnolias, Smokey and the Bandit, Norma Rae and Mrs. Doubtfire.
Field had started her career with the TV series, Gidget and The Flying Nun.
In February, this year, Sally had received her Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, an as she was accepting her award, she had talked about her career.
“Offstage I felt shy and careful and hidden. But onstage I never knew what I would say or do. I would surprise myself. I wasn’t looking for the applause, or attention, even though that’s nice,” Field had stated.
“Acting, to me, has always been about finding those few, precious moments when I feel totally, utterly, sometimes dangerously alive. The task has always been to find a way to get to that.”
“They opened and revealed parts of myself I would not have known otherwise. I’ve worked my whole life. In all of these almost 60 years, there is not a day that I don’t feel quietly thrilled to call myself an actor,” 76-year-old star said.
When she was promoting her movie, Hello, My Name Is Doris, where she gave life to her character, Doris Miller, she said, “I’m an old woman, 70 is old, and that’s okay. I’ve gathered strength behind my years, I owned them, I’ve earned them, I’ve deserved them, I have a right to have them. And I don’t like my neck, I don’t like a lot of things but it’s okay.”
She also talked about aging, in 2009, in her interview with Good Housekeeping, the famous actress said, “I see myself on TV and I say, ‘Oh, I wish that weren’t happening to my neck. And your face is falling down, and your eyes are so puffy.’ But then I see some of the women (who have had plastic surgery) who I thought when they were younger were so beautiful. Now I think, Oh, dear, don’t do that! And it seems to be terribly disrespectful to who they are now.”
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