Glenda Jackson Quotes

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.
I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.
If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.
You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country.
As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.
Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.
I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all.
I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.
I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.
I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you're actually doing a play. It's not quite 24/7, but it's the work that counts.
I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think it's not going to end. How we individually meet that, I think, is entirely individual.
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