Susan Orlean I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately.
Played by Meryl Streep 
Adaptation. (2002) · 35 quotes
Adaptation. (2002) · 35 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Adaptation. (2002): in 8 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Amelia Kavan (3), John Laroche (3)
Change is not a choice.
More lines from Susan Orlean
4 quotes Susan Orlean Susan Orlean It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got **** up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I WANT TO BE NEW.
Susan Orlean There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more managable size.
Susan Orlean Most people yearn for something exceptional, something so inspiring that they'd want to risk everything for that passion, but few would act on it. It was very powerful and intoxicating to be around someone so alive.
Scenes with Susan Orlean
3 scenes
Then one morning, I woke up and said, "**** fish." I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn't been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
Susan Orlean But why?
Done with fish.
You know why I like plants?
Susan Orlean Nuh uh.
Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.
Susan Orlean [pause]
Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.
Darling, I don't know what's come over you.
Susan Orlean You came all over me.
My goodness.
