218 Quotes by Susan Sarandon

"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."

"I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination."

"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."

"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 was told I had an overabundance of original sin."

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

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

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

"When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible."

"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."