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Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
If anybody knows Marty, he was known for being this, like, curmudgeon. So it wasn't like ooey-gooey loving. It wasn't at all. It was, you know, if you complained about anything, he'd say, "Hey Sal, I'll run you a benefit." You know, it was about pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep on moving. By then it was a kind of practicality about life that I understood, that I appreciated, that I would rather live by. There was no sniveling. You just did your work and then you went home. But you did your work. You didn't make any excuses, you did your work. And I became Norma. I lived there. I learned how to work in the mill. I learned, I lived with the people. I didn't look for anything, I just did my work. I didn't look for anybody to say anything to me, 'cause I wasn't used to anybody saying anything to me really, except, "Get out of the room." And one day Marty came into my little motor home. I was scared that he was coming in, like, what had I done? Had I done something bad? Still terribly afraid and intimidated that somehow I wouldn't be good enough. Somehow I would be found out. I wouldn't be good enough. And he came in and, and sat down for a minute. And I was drinking a coke or something, getting ready to get back out in the heat, and he said, "Sal, I want to tell you " I said, "Yeah?" "You're first rate." And I was so utterly stunned. It was all he said. "You're first rate." And he got up and left. And then it was shattered. It was the most important thing anyone had ever said to me. It changed me and I was forever his daughter, his other child, his protégé. He said few things to me of encouragement, but I knew how deeply he cared. And all I ever did, all I wanted to do, was to be enough for him.
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Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
These are very, very frightening times. I won an Emmy this year, most especially because my character is the mother of a son who was in harm's way. And if I won it -- there were so many wonderful actors that were nominated for that Emmy -- it was solely because of the impact of what that woman went through. And I owed it to the mothers who wait for their children to come home from harm's way, from danger. And what I said was that, "As I owe this to those mothers, those brave mothers who wait for their children to come home from danger, from harm's way and from war." And they censored "war." It made no sense. And it is really illustrative of Fox. It's really illustrative of some of the networks and corporations that are running our institutions that should not be run by people who are going to say what should be heard and not heard. It's kind of remarkable. The interesting thing was is because I was censored, so many more people heard it. It was huge. It was everywhere. It was huge. It was like the biggest seen thing on YouTube and all of that because they did that. If they would've just allowed me to say that, it was just simple. "From danger, from harm's way, and from war." Duh! And the mothers who stand there and wait for their children to return, how is that political?
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Judah Folkman
Cancer Research
One time I wrote this big grant in the '70s that outlined the whole field as it almost is today. That there would be inhibitors and stimulators, and you could turn off blood vessel growth, and there wouldn't be drug resistance, and you shouldn't attack the tumor so directly. Laid it all out. And then I got cold feet, and I went to him and said, "I think I'm giving away too much." And he looked at it and he said, "No, it's theft-proof." He said, "They're never going to believe this. You'll have to ram it down their throat and it will take you ten years." He said, "Very interesting." And then also my wife Paula, many, many times. It would be very upsetting to get rejections from journals many, many times, and rejections from grants and things, and you think that the work is really -- I remember one time in the study section, "Haven't we funded this work long enough?" It didn't seem to be going anywhere. It was hard work. They were going to just stop all the funding. And Paula would always say, "Well, what do you care? If you really think it's right, you should go on."
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Shelby Foote
Novelist and Historian
Shelby Foote: It's not different to me at all whether I made the facts up out of memory or imagination, or got them out of documents. They're all facts to me, and they're to be dealt with as a novelist would deal with them. I don't mean by that that you have any license as a historian to invent. In fact, that ruins it. You have to be entirely accurate. But a novelist feels that same way about his imagined facts; he has to be true to them. I don't find any difference really, once the research is done or the imagination is through fooling with it. They're very much the same.
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