Quotes from Susan Walter

I hate when people dismiss the loss of an object because "it's just a thing." Things are important. They give comfort, shelter, style, identity. The sum total of your things is a road map of your life. They show where you've been, what you accomplished, who you loved, who loved you back. They are an expression of who you are. You can learn a lot about a person by their things. Material things are not what's most important in life, of course!

No, a home is not where your heart is, it's where your effort is. It's where you cook and eat and sleep and take pains to decorate. It's where your memories are made and kept. It's the photos on the mantel, the artwork on the walls, the blankets that you snuggle under, the trees and flowers that you plant and care for.

All cruelty springs from weakness. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you can't share your true self with someone, he once told me, you're wasting your time.

I suddenly realized, money can't buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.

Dogs are so easy to please—let them out when they're in, and in when they're out, and they'll reward you with sloppy, wet kisses for days.

Acting is all about finding truth in made-up situations. I know that seems like a paradox, that's why it's hard. An actor's job is to be completely honest while pretending to be someone else, in a place that's dressed up to look like somewhere else, while telling a story that isn't true.

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Walking into one's so-called "destiny" was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.

We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life. People watch a movie about a dramatic comeback (Rocky)

We often say that life imitates art, but sometimes, art also infiltrates life.

Not being financially strapped was empowering. It's a lot easier to ask for something if you're in a position to walk away if they say no.

It's well known by psychologists and anyone with a beating heart that the pain of losing something you're told is already yours is far greater than the pain of not getting something you wish for in the abstract.

If not, there was always whiskey.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

I would get once my career took off, but it was the first time in a long time seeing my aging MINI Cooper parked between two luxury cars didn't bum me out.

I had always been intrigued by the idea that you get what you believe you deserve—that positive thoughts bring positive outcomes.

I hated when people said I was talented. At this point I would have much preferred they told me that I sucked, that I should give it up, go back to school, find a new career.

I have not failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work." (Thomas Edison); "You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up." (James Clear); "Failure is success in progress." (Albert Einstein). No

Without adversity there is no triumphant comeback

Sadness is thick, like a heavy fog that clouds your vision so you can't see any of the good things around you. But grief is something else. It's not fog, it's a storm. It rages inside you, tearing at your organs, pulling at your heart, lungs, skin, until they feel like they are going to rip wide open, exposing the most delicate parts of you, leaving them bloody and raw.

Grief is savage, like love. I think maybe it's the same thing as love? It's love that is trapped inside you, a bird that can't spread its wings so it flaps violently in protest until it's exhausted and broken and utterly without hope. No, grief is not sadness. It's love that is desperately, urgently lost, an intense longing that pools in your lungs and balls up in your throat, so that when you try to talk it just pours out of you like sludge.

It's hard to leave a dream behind if you don't have a new one to move toward.

Upheaval was a fact of life. You could either be defeated by it or take advantage. Walking into one's so-called "destiny" was the ability to see disruptions not as obstacles, but as road signs, then follow them where they led.