top of page
Quote_1.png
Sally Field

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

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

More 

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I want to get into movies, not just TV series."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."

Fight

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"I've never had my heart broken."

Heart

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"Change is never easy."

Change

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"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!"

Time

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do."

People

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"I came from a real working-class show business family."

Business

Quote_1.png
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."

Waiting

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."

Work

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

Time

Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."

Business

bottom of page