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Susan Sarandon Quotes
• Children reinvent your world for you.
• It became a tool that started so much dialogue. We never guessed that it would be so big.
• Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
• I never think about humiliating myself. I keep focusing on wanting to do a good job.
• Under pressure, she embraced her personal struggles with dignity and humor and always with the focus on the greater good.
• 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.
• Your loss will be met with a hurricane of love!
• 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.
• I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
• It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
• Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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?
• Don't roll over on this one. This is really a big deal.
• I am so honored and thrilled, ... Being from New York it's great to have ... a little bit of real estate in L.A. when I am here.
• I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
• 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 try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
• 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.
• I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
• I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.
• It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.
• In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
• 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.
• I loved doing that long scene.
• It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
• 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'.
• Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
• I feel very strongly that if something happens to another mother's kid that it happens to my kid.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?
• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
• You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Filmography
2009 - The Lovely Bones2008 - The Colossus
2008 - Middle Of Nowhere
2008 - Speed Racer
2007 - Bernard and Doris
2007 - Emotional Arithmetic
2007 - Enchanted
2007 - In the Valley of Elah
2007 - Mr. Woodcock
2006 - Irresistible
2005 - Romance & Cigarettes
2005 - Elizabethtown
2004 - Alfie
2004 - Shall we Dance
2004 - Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2004 - Noel
2003 - Ice Bound
2002 - Little Miss Spider
2002 - Moonlight Mile
2002 - The Banger Sisters
2002 - Igby Goes Down
2001 - Goodnight Moon
2001 - Cats & Dogs
2000 - Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000 - Joe Gould's Secret
1999 - Anywhere but Here
1999 - Cradle Will Rock
1999 - Our Friend, Martin
1998 - Stepmom
1998 - Illuminata
1998 - Twilight
1996 - James and the Giant Peach
1995 - Dead Man Walking
1994 - Safe Passage
1994 - Little Women
1994 - The Client
1992 - Lorenzo's Oil
1992 - Bob Roberts
1992 - Light Sleeper
1992 - The Player
1991 - Thelma & Louise
1990 - White Palace
1989 - A Dry White Season
1989 - The January Man
1988 - Sweet Hearts Dance
1988 - Bull Durham
1987 - The Witches of Eastwick
1985 - Compromising Positions
1984 - The Buddy System
1983 - The Hunger
1982 - Tempest
1980 - Loving Couples
1980 - Atlantic City
1979 - Something Short Of Paradise
1978 - King of the Gypsies
1978 - Pretty Baby
1977 - The Last Of The Cowboys
1977 - The Other Side of Midnight
1977 - Checkered Flag or Crash
1976 - Dragonfly
1975 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 - The Great Waldo Pepper
1974 - The Front Page
1974 - The Rimers Of Eldritch
1974 - Lovin' Molly
1974 - The Apprentice
1971 - Lady Liberty
1970 - Joe
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