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Susan Sarandon
October 4, 1946 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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?

   

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

   

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.

   

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

   

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

   

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.

   

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

Children reinvent your world for you.

   

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

   

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

   

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

   

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