“Easy is overrated,” said the two-time Oscar winner of the challenges of acting.
She’s won so much s—."
“I became a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Sally Field accepts her Life Achievement Award at the 2023 SAG Awards.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Field is an icon in the acting field.
“It has never been about a need to hide behind myself behind the characters of other people.
Field spoke to the challenges she faced as an actor, particularly transitioning from television to film.
Sally Field.Casey Curry/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
“I was a little white girl born in Pasadena, Calif.
When I look around this room tonight, I know my fight was lightweight compared to some of yours.
Easy is overrated.”
In 2019, she made her West End debut in Arthur Miller’sAll My Sons.
Her memoir,In Pieces,was published in 2018.
“I’ve never wanted to know the answers.”
Field is also a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor.
I’ve had multiple personalities, worked in a textile mill, picked cotton.
The process of owning them, understanding them, changed me.
They opened and revealed parts of myself I would not have known otherwise.
Thank you for this award from you, the people I most wanted respect from, actors.”
The 2023 SAG Awards took place Sunday night at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
Check out thefull list of winners.
