I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything. Susan Sarandon More Quotes by Susan Sarandon More Quotes From Susan Sarandon There is no shortcut to grieving. Susan Sarandon shortcuts grief grieving To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university. Susan Sarandon university catholic firsts That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you. Susan Sarandon teaching children firsts 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. Susan Sarandon forgiving heaven thinking We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come. Susan Sarandon marijuana weed smoking I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball. Susan Sarandon soul baseball motivational I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process. Susan Sarandon nerd chance artist It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation. Susan Sarandon argument motivation long 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. Susan Sarandon waiting people thinking With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income. Susan Sarandon renewable-resources ongoing animal I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions. Susan Sarandon im-tired asks tired 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 real revenge directors 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 hands thinking 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 villain complicated made 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. Susan Sarandon growing-up important people 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. Susan Sarandon balance trying jobs I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. Susan Sarandon my-family new-york feels I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life. Susan Sarandon real mother children Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces. And you can do an amazing job, but if the camera isn't getting it, it doesn't work. And then other times when you feel you really weren't present, and then you see it and somehow it works. So there's a mystery, there's a strange collaboration that takes place with everybody. Susan Sarandon cameras littles jobs The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids. Susan Sarandon twenties kids years
