Sally Field
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Sally Margaret Field Mahoney (born 1946-11-06) is an American actress who is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe winner; she is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, The Flying Nun.
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- 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!
- Said during Field's Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in 1984's Places in the Heart
- Often misremembered as, "You like me. You really like me!"
- Echoed by Sean Penn in his 1996 acceptance of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in Dead Man Walking as, "You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!"
- Waxman, Sharon, "The Oscar Acceptance Speech: By and Large, It's a Lost Art", Washington Post, 1999-03-21. URL accessed on 2006-12-31.
