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?
Susan Sarandon

Children reinvent your world for you.
Susan Sarandon

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
Susan Sarandon

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

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
Susan Sarandon

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.
Susan Sarandon

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.
Susan Sarandon

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

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Susan Sarandon


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

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.
Susan Sarandon

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.
Susan Sarandon

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
Susan Sarandon

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.
Susan Sarandon

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

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

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Susan Sarandon

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.
Susan Sarandon