Daily Inspiration Quote by Sarah Sutton

“Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone” is the kind of line an actress delivers with the weary clarity of someone who’s been close enough to the machinery to know how the gears grind. Sutton’s phrasing matters: “always” is blunt, almost fatalistic, and “everyone” deliberately spreads the discomfort across the entire ecosystem. It’s not a pep talk for labor, and it’s not a scolding of workers, either. It’s an acknowledgement of collateral damage as a feature, not a bug.

The intent is pragmatic: strikes are designed to be disruptive, and disruption rarely feels noble in the moment. “Bad taste” is a telling euphemism - bodily, intimate, lingering. It suggests that even when a strike is justified, it can stain relationships: castmates split by solidarity and fear, crews caught between rent and principle, studios facing public pressure, audiences feeling deprived and annoyed. The subtext is that moral clarity doesn’t cancel emotional fallout. A strike forces people to rank values: fair pay versus immediate stability, long-term dignity versus short-term comfort.

Coming from an actress, the line also gestures at the peculiar precariousness of creative labor. On set, “work” is community; a stoppage isn’t abstract economics, it’s a daily rupture. Sutton’s quote works because it refuses the clean myth that there are only heroes and villains in labor fights. It frames strikes as a necessary, messy medicine - and like medicine, it can leave an aftertaste that everyone remembers even if it helps.