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Sally Field

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Vera Miles

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

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Vera Miles

"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story."

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Vera Miles

"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."

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Vera Miles

"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."

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Vera Miles

"One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible."

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Vera Miles

"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."

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Vera Miles

"I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones."

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Vera Miles

"So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write."

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Vera Miles

"All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie."

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Vera Miles

"I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward."

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Sally Field
"I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did."

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Sally Field
"I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!"

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Sally Field
"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

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Sally Field
"You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present."

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Sally Field
"I've never had my heart broken."

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Sally Field
"Change is never easy."

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Sally Field
"When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing."

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Sally Field
"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."

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Sally Field
"But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter."

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Sally Field
"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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