SUSAN STRASBERG

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?