Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Abigail Sarandon is an American actress. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner who is also known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth4 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
wisdom daughter rap
The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.
cost ordinary circumstances
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.
thinking imagination able
I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade.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.
children teaching firsts
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.
thinking nipples naked
I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.
complicated villain made
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.
thinking people waiting
So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.
silly hands syrup
It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.
sex thinking hands
I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.
upset looks tough
If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.
death dying way
To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.
mother children real
I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.
morning children school
When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice
god spiritual giving
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.