Susan Strasberg Quotes

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Work and children I could have. But the husband was just too much.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.