United Kingdom, May 11 -- Sally Field has insisted one of the most quoted speeches in Oscar history has been misunderstood for decades.

The two-time Oscar winner, 79, made the statement as she revisited the moment when she declared during her Academy Awards acceptance speech "You like me, you really like me".

Sally revisited the moment during an interview with People while promoting her new Netflix drama Remarkably Bright Creatures.

The actress won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1985 for her role as widowed Texas farmer Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart, five years after first taking home the prize for Norma Rae.

Her acceptance speech at that year's Oscars quickly entered Hollywood folklore and has since been parodied across...