Susan Sarandon

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.”

“[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible, violent things. That's at the bottom of it. It's just a question of prioritizing. The funds are t”

“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 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.”

“Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demandin”

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)”

“How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you”

“When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer, even if we’ve been raised that”

“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.”

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