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Susan Sarandon Biography

Susan Abigail Sarandon (/səˈrændən/; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner who is also known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006.

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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.

Afghanistan, Death Penalty, Iraq, Penalty, People, Percentage

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.

Anthony, Children, Empathy, Mother, Real, Remember

It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community.

America, Central, Country, Fighting, Interesting, Men

I believe in using words, not fists.

Believe, Fists, Using, Using Words, Words

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Captain, Captains, Ship, Ships, Vision

Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed, and don’t drive crazy on weed. They just get hungry, don’t go out of the house, or laugh a lot. I think it would make for a much more gentle world.

Weed, Crazy, Drinking, Think, Mean

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.

Differences, Love, Love Is, Making, Practically, Thinking

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

Brotherhood, Choice, Choices, Diversity, Family, Street

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

School, Originality, Sin, Overabundance, Parochial

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Car, Pleasant, Pleasant Surprises, Run, Running

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.

Alan, Complicated, Friend, Made, Rickman, Villain

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

Behalf, Children, Risk, Voice, Women

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

Black And White, Everything, Graduates, Married, Movies, Students

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.

Cereal, Grief, Grieves, Grieving, Wrong

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.

Car, Friendly, New York, Things, Walk, York

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

Differences, Inspirational, Kind, Know, Life, Want

I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

Alive, Careers, Children, Fear, Sense, Worry

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Big, Gets, Good, Good Job, Jobs, Women

In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.

Acting, Camera, Cameras, Cut, Cutting, Thought

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.

Combination, Expression, Guy, Somewhere Else, Specific, Spoke

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