Susan Sarandon Quotes

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

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

Children reinvent your world for you.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

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.

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

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

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.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

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

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.

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

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.

It helps me chill out and focus.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

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

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

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

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?

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

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.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

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.

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 hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

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

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.