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Sally Field volition ne'er hide wherever she came from.

During the 2023 SAG Awards connected Feb. 26, the 76-year-old histrion received a lasting ovation aft Andrew Garfield presented her with the Lifetime Achievement Award. (For a implicit list of winners, click here.) When she accepted her trophy, Sally looked backmost connected her inspiring travel into Hollywood.

"I archetypal recovered this signifier erstwhile I was 12 years aged successful the seventh people and aft that, I ne'er near the play department," she told the assemblage wrong the Fairmont Century Plaza successful Century City, Calif. "You know, backmost erstwhile schools actually person play departments."

Sally described the magic she felt connected stage, calling it "the 1 spot I could beryllium truly me."

"When I got disconnected stage, I felt shy and cautious and hidden," she said. "I would deliberation and rethink everything earlier I could accidental oregon bash anything. But connected stage, I ne'er knew what I would accidental oregon do. I would astonishment myself."

"I didn't person an cause and I was moving nether what's called the Taft Hartley law," she said. "A fewer months later, this amusement [Gidget] was picked up and each of a abrupt I was a prima of a tv series. And I became a subordinate of the Screen Actors Guild."

During her acceptance speech, Sally joked astir each the characters she has taken on, including Mrs. Doubtfire's employer, Forrest Gump's mother, Abraham Lincoln's woman and Spider Man's aunt.

But erstwhile celebrating her career, which has spanned adjacent to 60 years, Sally said she ne'er mislaid a consciousness of gratitude.