Quotes from Susan Sarandon

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

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.

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

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

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

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

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.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

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.

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

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 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 world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

I believe in using words, not fists.

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

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.

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.

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?

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demandin