Latest Susan Sarandon Quotes from Interviews

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• There are many actresses that are working longer, because until you change the playing field and make it economically stronger for women, it's very difficult to say no to somebody when that's your only gig. If you're a producer, or if you have more power, you're going to be in a position to know that if you burn that bridge, there'll still be this bridge open. But still - when people ask me 'do you think your politics have decreased your chances of working, I say: 'In Hollywood, most of the prejudice has to do with if you're old or fat.' Power can't forgive that".

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, People, Forgiving

• Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.

  Susan Sarandon

  Black, Different, Language

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• It is important to have a woman editor. Movie is an industry where it is predominantly women. Male editors might cut out pauses that are interesting, while a woman might not be afraid of that pause. Trying to do a movie with an editor who is not funny is impossible. There are certain talents that go with certain genders.

  Susan Sarandon

  Cutting, Interesting, Important

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, Gay, Men

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• One of the first lessons I learned as a mom was to forgive myself for not being perfect and to try to prioritize what was really important. I had to really accept very early on that after a while, reading a script and finding the form for the class trip, it was hard to realize which one had priority at times. So I just had to say, "You're doing the best you can, and when you make a mistake, apologize. Your kids know that you love them."

  Susan Sarandon

  Mom, Mistake, Reading

  Source: ew.com

• Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Falling In Love, Exercise, Knowing

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

  Susan Sarandon

  Always Trying, Good Times, Having A Good Time

• I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Grief, Grieving, Cereal

• It's not enough just to be in a panic. We don't have the luxury to be depressed about Trump. We have to look at issues like health care and the price of pharmaceuticals, the $15 minimum wage and things that actually make a huge difference in a lot of people's lives. That's feminist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Luxury, Differences, Issues

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

  Susan Sarandon

  Upset, Steps, Steps Forward

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just to understand what your government is doing and how much they are spending.

  Susan Sarandon

  Government, Color, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.

  Susan Sarandon

  Optimistic, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

  Susan Sarandon

  Iraq, People, Death Penalty

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 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

  Country, People, Different

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.

  Susan Sarandon

  War, Doubt, Twenties

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've just come back from Vegas, and I was in on the caucus process. It's insane. What a mess. And also with these particular candidates who are running, so many times I said, "I just wish Kurt Vonnegut were alive." This is like something he would be writing. This is just crazy stuff. I would love to hear his take on it.

  Susan Sarandon

  Running, Crazy, Writing

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met Kurt Vonnegut through Edith Demme. And then I was lucky to do Who Am I This Time? 1982, which was an adaptation of his short story that Jonathan Demme directed with Chris Walken and I, and that really cemented the friendship.

  Susan Sarandon

  New York, Thinking, Lucky

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• 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

  Expression, Somewhere Else, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price.

  Susan Sarandon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Asking Questions

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want to do a revenge film. I'm not interested in doing that moment in the script after they shoot the truck, where it says they jump up and down and they're real happy about it".

  Susan Sarandon

  Revenge, Real, Directors

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mistake, Made, Investigation

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

  Susan Sarandon

  Complicated, Villain, Made

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.

  Susan Sarandon

  Sex, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• 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

  Compassion, Acting, Kind

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

• I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts are political, every story is political. It either challenges or reinforces some schism or stereotype. So what is the project going to say at the end of the day? What does it tell you about the world, or what does it challenge in terms of your world?

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.