Top 90 Susan Sarandon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When I tell people I’m a comedian they say, ‘Oh, are you funny?’ I say, ‘No, it’s not that kind of comedy.’”

— Susan Sarandon

52. “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

53. “It’s ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.”

— Susan Sarandon

54. “I don’t like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it’s using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.”

— Susan Sarandon

55. “Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.”

— Susan Sarandon

56. “It will be great when it’s not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.”

— Susan Sarandon

57. “I’m happy to be considered desirable. I love it!”

— Susan Sarandon

58. “You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That’s especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.”

— Susan Sarandon

59. “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

60. “It’s really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it’s going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I’m not conducive...”

— Susan Sarandon

61. “Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.”

— Susan Sarandon

62. “That’s one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about “building your circle” and “mooding up,” because I really didn’t learn any technique.”

— Susan Sarandon

63. “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.”

— Susan Sarandon

64. “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.”

— Susan Sarandon

65. “It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.”

— Susan Sarandon

66. “I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.”

— Susan Sarandon

67. “The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it’s a mess.”

— Susan Sarandon

68. “If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.”

— Susan Sarandon

69. “When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.”

— Susan Sarandon

70. “I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.”

— Susan Sarandon

71. “The thing that’s bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It’d be nice if you could have both.”

— Susan Sarandon

72. “Kurt Vonnegut wasn’t a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he wrote, in a very specific kind of combination of word groupings and expressions that lived somewhere else.”

— Susan Sarandon

73. “New York is very user-friendly if you don’t want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it’s so compressed – if you walk around, you just find things.”

— Susan Sarandon

74. “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

75. “It’s important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.”

— Susan Sarandon

76. “My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard – children and women at risk.”

— Susan Sarandon

77. “You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don’t think there’s a right or a wrong; I think there’s an “it works” or “it doesn’t work” for the whole. And that’s why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.”

— Susan Sarandon

78. “If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.”

— Susan Sarandon

79. “How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?”

— Susan Sarandon

80. “Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you’re gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there’s nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.”

— Susan Sarandon

81. “It’s still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.”

— Susan Sarandon

82. “With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.”

— Susan Sarandon

83. “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.”

— Susan Sarandon

84. “I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.”

— Susan Sarandon

85. “I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.”

— Susan Sarandon

86. “There wasn’t space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.”

— Susan Sarandon

87. “The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something’s going in an unexpected direction and see it as a bonus and be able to go with it, as opposed to locking down what they thought was going to happen.”

— Susan Sarandon

88. “I’m kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.”

— Susan Sarandon

89. “If you’re upset with how you look at 25, life’s going to be tough.”

— Susan Sarandon

90. “I’d have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.”

— Susan Sarandon

91. “I’m tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.”

— Susan Sarandon

92. “I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing your own strict idea of the story. There are very few directors that can micromanage and still come out with something that’s living and breathing on a page. Wes Anderson is one of those .”

— Susan Sarandon

93. “On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.”

— Susan Sarandon

94. “It’s a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.”

— Susan Sarandon

95. “He has a very strong vision of what he wants.”

— Susan Sarandon