Sally Field recently admitted that she wants to “punch people in the nose” when they get her 1985 Oscars speech wrong. Field had won the Best Actress for her performance in Places in the Heart, portraying a woman running a Texas farm during the Great Depression.
Part of her original speech was: “I can’t deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me.” However, many people often misquote it, butchering it entirely: “You like me. You really, really like me.”
Sally Field really hates when people get her 1985 Oscars speech wrong
She admitted in an interview with Variety that she gets frustrated when people get it wrong. “Sometimes I want to punch them in the nose, but mostly because they don’t ever say the context of what I said before. When I’m there talking about it, I say I haven’t had an orthodox career, that this has been a struggle for me, but for this one moment in time, I have to allow myself to know and feel that you like me.”
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She continues, “And I could’ve been more eloquent. I should’ve used a word like you ‘appreciated’ my work… To me, what mattered was for that one moment in time I did it. I did it. I landed it, and I thanked them for feeling it.”
As for her detractors, she opened up about them as well, saying, “A lot of people didn’t have a clue of what they were talking about. They didn’t know what it is to be a performer and have your nose and your ears and your legs out there to be ridiculed and criticized. They don’t know what that feels like. They’re not in the arena. They’re handing out the deodorant in the stands.”