Latest Glenn Close Quotes from Interviews

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• I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

  Glenn Close

  Real, Book, Impact

  Interview with Glenn Close, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2014.

• I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

  Glenn Close

  War, Ideas, Events

  "Mia Wasikowska". Interview with Glenn Close, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2014.

• There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Quality, Television

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

  Glenn Close

  Dream, Able, Television

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

  Glenn Close

  Communication, Mind, Moments

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.

  Glenn Close

  Challenges, Mouths, Four

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Mind, Kind

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, October 24, 2007.

• When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Challenges, Brain

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

  Glenn Close

  Witty, Clever, Fun

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

  Glenn Close

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• So I'm always inspired by my fellow actors. And that's kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Together, Connections

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Bored, Collaboration

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.

  Glenn Close

  Morning, Exercise, Choices

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Ipods, People

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

  Glenn Close

  Differences, One Day, Thrill

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Ipods, House

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Judging, Actors

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Thinking, Evil People

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Thinking, Common Humanity

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

• I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

  Glenn Close

  Ocean, Sea, Married

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

• I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

  Glenn Close

  Cynical, Found, Planets

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein,, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

• When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

  Glenn Close

  Shrimp, Destructive

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

• I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

  Glenn Close

  Mother, Dog, Religious

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

• People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

  Glenn Close

  Ocean, Thinking, People

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.