Susan Strasberg Quotes & Sayings

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

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race. — 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

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in. — Susan Strasberg

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. — Susan Strasberg

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me. — Susan Strasberg

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

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos. — Susan Strasberg

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

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education. — Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques. — Susan Strasberg

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. — Susan Strasberg

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