Susan Sarandon Quotes (38 Quotes)

Under pressure, she embraced her personal struggles with dignity and humor and always with the focus on the greater good.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

A guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

I want to do anything I can, he has been kind of shut out by the powers that be in terms of having of a voice.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

But it was scary because when I met with Cameron, we were both sniffing around each other trying to decide what the tone would be. I didn't want to do Lucy and Desi ... I knew where the traps were. I was nervous about making it spontaneous and awkward, bu

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

There were brave people who didn't vote. She's not worse than other politicians, but I hoped she would be better. What America is looking for is authentic people who want to go into public service because they believe strongly in something, not people who are trying to get elected.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

I think that parents are supposed to be sexual. Anybody's parents. Even kissing your mate, to kids it's like they don't even want to go there.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Moses That's a very humble beginning. I'm so happy for them, the more the merrier. I know she takes mothering very seriously and it is one of the hardest things you can possibly do and it will take every ounce of imagination that she has. I'm so happy for her because that little Apple deserves a playmate.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I'm looking forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less the issue and what you are is the point.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

I never think about humiliating myself. I keep focusing on wanting to do a good job.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

If we're not here, we're saying what happened is acceptable and normal and I think that does a disservice to other police, ... We Shall Overcome.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.