To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

In 1989 Sarandon co-starred with Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season followed by White Palace (1990) with James Spader. In 1974 Sarandon co-starred in The Front Page with the comedy duo Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and played Anthony Perkins' neglected wife in Lovin' Molly. She hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh Scotland in 2005.

She has worked in movies and television since 1969 and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work.