Love Quote by Sally Field

There is a quietly ruthless honesty in admitting regret not for heartbreak itself, but for having dodged it. Sally Field flips the usual celebrity confession: instead of presenting herself as wounded, she frames herself as someone who stayed too defended, too in control. The “very sad” isn’t melodrama; it’s a moral verdict on emotional risk management. She’s pointing at the cost of self-protection: if you never let your heart get broken, you also never fully let it get taken.

Then she lands the second clause like a corrective jab: “I have broken a few.” It punctures any temptation to read the first line as pure self-pity. Field doesn’t just confess fear; she owns collateral damage. The subtext is adult and unpretty: avoiding vulnerability doesn’t make you neutral, it makes you dangerous. You can keep your own pain at bay by staying detached, but detachment still leaves fingerprints on other people.

As an actress whose career has traded in emotional availability, the line carries extra voltage. Field’s public image is warmth, sincerity, the full-body performance of feeling. Here she suggests the off-camera paradox: you can be professionally open while personally barricaded, fluent in love’s language without risking its consequences. The quote works because it refuses redemption arc neatness. It’s not “I’ve been hurt.” It’s “I withheld, and that has a body count.” That’s a rarer, braver kind of reflection.