Susan Sarandon famous quotes

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

#Kindness #Power #Imagination

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#New York #Car #Friendly

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

#Issues #Age #Looks

In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Cutting #Acting #Plot

Children reinvent your world for you.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Baby #Children #Baby Boy

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Jobs #Kids #Happy Life

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Happiness #True Beauty #Weapons

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

#Jobs #Women #Good Job

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from ***** intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Fighting #Marijuana #Alcohol

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all and everything fed my dreams. Then as an adult whenever I would go on location the first thing we would do as a family is sign up at the closest library. Not only would we find books, but what was happening in that town, because the library is the head of the community.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Dream #Book #Imagination

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Diversity #Choices #Boxes

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

#Baseball #Love Is #Making Love

I believe in using words, not fists.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Believe #Fists #Using Words

Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed, and don’t drive crazy on weed. They just get hungry, don’t go out of the house, or laugh a lot. I think it would make for a much more gentle world.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Weed #Crazy #Drinking

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!
-- Susan Sarandon

#Real #Loneliness #Mean

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Hope #Hands #People

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

#Roles #Easy #Offers

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Mother #Children #Differences

It helps me chill out and focus.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Meditation #Focus #Helping

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

#Death #Dying #Way

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Catholic #Firsts #University

There is no shortcut to grieving.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Grief #Grieving #Shortcuts

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

#Perseverance #Determination #Fighting

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Country #Feelings #Patriotism

I wouldn't want to be 20 now. I know so much more, and I'm much more comfortable in my skin, saggy as it is When I hear young girls complaining about superficial things You're at the peak of your physical beauty right now! Just enjoy it and stop worrying about your thighs being too big If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough
-- Susan Sarandon

#Girl #Worry #Upset

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

#Tired #Anti-american

With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Animal #Income #Ongoing

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

#People #Comedian #Comedy

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Moving #Voice #Creative

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

#Eye #Justice #Trying

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

#Family #Ideas #Priorities

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?
-- Susan Sarandon

#Children #Kids #Home

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Strength #Strong #Thinking

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

#Responsibility #Men #Increase

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Mother #Country #War

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#God #Giving #People

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#People #House #Forgiving

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

#Sleep #Want

The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Wisdom #Daughter #Rap

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Taken #Choices #Age

If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Sex #Mean #Able

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Kids #Years #Firsts

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Jobs #Trying #Balance

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Usa #Office #People

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

#Silly #Hands #Syrup

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Hate #Knowing #Assumption

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Thinking #Heaven #Forgiving

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?
-- Susan Sarandon

#Cities #Baghdad #Regimes

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Children #Teaching #Firsts

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

#Upset #Looks #Tough

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

#New York #My Family #Feels

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Cost #Ordinary #Circumstances

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

#School #Originality #Sin

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Helping Others #Simple #Differences

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Growing Up #People #Important

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Thinking #Feel Good #Want

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Children #Careers #Justice

When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice
-- Susan Sarandon

#Morning #Children #School

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk
-- Susan Sarandon

#Children #Voice #Risk

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...
-- Susan Sarandon

#Children #Parent #Trying

Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Mother #Teacher #Children

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Running #Car #Pleasant Surprises

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

I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away, she explained in an interview with Parade.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Mistake #Thinking #Empathy

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

#Baseball #Team #Roots

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Baseball #Soul #Church

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

#Differences #Want #Kind

We've legalized ***** recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Weed #Marijuana #Smoking

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'.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Mean #People #Advice

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.
-- Susan Sarandon

#Thinking #Talking #Feelings