Susan Strasberg
Susan Strasberg was born on May 22, 1938, in New York City, a city that would shape her education and career from an early age. She attended the Professional Children's School and the High School of Music & Art, both in New York, laying the groundwork for a life spent across the stage, screen, and page.
Strasberg worked as a stage, film, and television actor, as well as a writer, building a career that moved between multiple performance disciplines. Her stage work drew early recognition when, at just eighteen years old, she took on the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank, a performance that earned her a Tony Award nomination. The Theatre World Award also came her way, adding further acknowledgment to what was still the early stretch of her professional life. Beyond the stage, she extended her presence into film and television, working in English across these different formats throughout her career.
Strasberg died on January 21, 1999, in New York City — the same city where she had been born six decades earlier.
Quotes by Susan Strasberg
I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.
I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.
I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
