JJ FIELD Quotes

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Get over it. Get on with your life.

I've had such an odd career.

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

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

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

I really like cable T.V.

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.

I wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

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Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

Reflection of the Past, Acceptance of What Was, and the Discovery of the Humor in All ThingsHeals Even the Deepest of Wounds

Within all beings resides the unlimited power of the creative soul.

A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment...

Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.

Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.