Glenda Jackson Quotes

#1. I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

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

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

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#9. Ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

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

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#11. 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.

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

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

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#14. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

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

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#16. 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.

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#17. For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

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#18. You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

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#19. I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

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#20. Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

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#21. One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

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#25. 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.

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#26. It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

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#27. 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.

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#28. One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

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