Quotes from Susan Strasberg

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

There are silences and there are silences; some are wordless, yet you communicate; others are like loud black voids which separate and isolate people.

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.