Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

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

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.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

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.

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

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty we

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

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

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

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

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

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.

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

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

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.

Children reinvent your world for you.