Susan Sullivan Quotes

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.

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

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.