Susan Strasberg (Susan Elizabeth Strasberg) Quotes
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.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.
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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
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When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.
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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.
