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)

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

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.

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)

[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)

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?