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Last updated on April 13, 2025.
Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. Imagined to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955. A close friend of Marilyn Monroe and Richard Burton, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.
My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.
There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
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.
I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
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.
As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.
A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
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.
You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.
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?
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.