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. Susan Strasberg More Quotes by Susan Strasberg More Quotes From Susan Strasberg 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. Susan Strasberg lots-of-friends chocolate yoga You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in. Susan Strasberg wave faster ocean Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race. Susan Strasberg horse race running 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. Susan Strasberg pieces would-be pay I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. Susan Strasberg grandmother grandma home I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian? Susan Strasberg girl meat home There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques. Susan Strasberg much thing many nonsense 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. Susan Strasberg me sitting waiting want As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education. Susan Strasberg see i-can college education I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos. Susan Strasberg actor room house two My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me. Susan Strasberg like me dad daughter A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. Susan Strasberg lady performance great writing I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers... and if none of that works, I go buy a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac. Susan Strasberg
