Glenda Jackson Quotes

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I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Glenda Jackson

Believe, Sometimes, Used

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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Glenda Jackson

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

Glenda Jackson

Eye, Giving, Movement

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I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Glenda Jackson

Stronger, Cases, Opposition

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If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.

Glenda Jackson

Strong, People, Problem

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.

Glenda Jackson

Drama, Laughing, People

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The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

Glenda Jackson

Sex, Thinking, Laughing

"Cynthia Nixon and 10 other celebrities who entered politics" by Lucy Todd, www.bbc.com. March 22, 2018.

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Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Glenda Jackson

Men, Littles, Rewards

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

Glenda Jackson

Children, Pregnancy, Littles

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You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

Glenda Jackson

Thinking, Theatre, Realizing

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To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

Glenda Jackson

Passion, Important, Want

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I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Glenda Jackson

Wise, Age, Looks

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Glenda Jackson

Song, Past, Names

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Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

Glenda Jackson

Ambitious, Very Good

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The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

Glenda Jackson

Essentials, Tasks, Actors

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I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Glenda Jackson

Failure, Defeated, Disappointed

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people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

Glenda Jackson

Movie, Numbers, People

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a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

Glenda Jackson

Play, Generations, Littles

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I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

Glenda Jackson

Age, Camels, Faces

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If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Glenda Jackson

Thinking, Heyday, Eras

"Margaret Thatcher - MPs and peers pay tribute: as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.

Glenda Jackson

Mean, Night, Actors

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Glenda Jackson

Funny, Money, Business

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

Glenda Jackson

Jobs, Actresses, Looks

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If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.

Glenda Jackson

People, Actors, Littles

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To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Glenda Jackson

Humility, Motherhood, Successful

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Born: May 9, 1936
Occupation: Politician
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