I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need."

(The Power of One: Belief.net Interview; July 2005)

Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demanding it."

(On Beauty: Susan Sarandon, Vogue, January 8, 2016)

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible, violent things. That's at the bottom of it. It's just a question of prioritizing. The funds are there."

(The Power of One: Belief.net Interview; July 2005)

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon."

As quoted in The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)