Susan Sullivan Quotes

United States, Actress
November 18, 1942

Susan Michaela Sullivan is an American actress. Sullivan is best known for her roles as Lenore Curtin Delaney on the daytime soap opera Another World (1971–76), as Dr. Elaina Marks in the television series pilot The Incredible Hulk, as Lois Adams on the ABC sitcom It's a Living (1980–81), as Maggie Gioberti Channing on the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–89), as Kitty Montgomery on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), and as Martha Rodgers on Castle (2009–2016).

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you.

Susan Sullivan
- Theatre
- Chose
I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

Susan Sullivan
- Business
- Star
- Fades

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Susan Sullivan
- Comedy
- Gift
- Dramatic
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Susan Sullivan
- Work
- Humanity
- Material
I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

Susan Sullivan
- People
- Working
- Hype
The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Susan Sullivan
- Process
- Living
- Means
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

Susan Sullivan
- Person
- Right
- Gestures
I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Susan Sullivan
- Want
- Fame
- Ever

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: You use your hands too much.

Susan Sullivan
- Theatre
- Hands
- Use
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

Susan Sullivan
- Summer
- Television
- Afford