218 Quotes by Susan Sarandon

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I don’t like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it’s using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.

I think it’s very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.