Top 100 Glenda Quotes
#1. There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
John Schlesinger
#2. Plate after plate sparkled under Glenda's hands. Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Glenda enjoyed her job. She didn't have a career; they were for people who could not hold down jobs.
Terry Pratchett
#4. I still have a headache," said
Charlotte, without looking up from the
floor.
"There, you see?" Aunt Glenda gave
a venomous smile.
"I have a headache too," said Mum.
"But that doesn't mean I'm about to start traveling in time.
Kerstin Gier
#5. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
Richard Corliss
#6. Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.
Diane Johnson
#7. Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.
Auberon Waugh
#8. Florence Dempsey, played by Torchy Blane actress Glenda Farrell, goes so far as to memorably declare to her friend Charlotte in The Mystery of the Wax Museum, "You raise the kids; I'll raise the roof!
Erika Janik
#9. When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.
Auberon Waugh
#10. They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.
'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.
Terry Pratchett
#11. I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.
Glenda Jackson
#12. 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
#13. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda Millard
#14. Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.
Glenda Green
#15. Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?
Glenda Jackson
#16. We sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.
'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.
Glenda Millard
#17. But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.
Glenda Millard
#18. I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance for ever.
Glenda Millard
#19. One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.
Glenda Jackson
#20. I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...
Glenda Millard
#21. I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.
Glenda Millard
#22. 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.
Glenda Jackson
#23. Good or bad results we are dealing is all in our hand.
Glenda Radores
#24. I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.
Glenda Millard
#25. I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.
Glenda Millard
#28. Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.
Glenda Millard
#29. I don't know what is the key to SUCCESS that's why i keep trying to find it.
Glenda Radores
#31. To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.
Glenda Bailey
#32. It is the facts that some people will never fit in our life, no matter how much you want them.
Glenda Radores
#33. And all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.
Glenda Millard
#34. I discovered right away at the airport that Italian men were way too attentive.
Glenda Helms
#35. One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.
Glenda Jackson
#37. You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.
Glenda Millard
#38. I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.
Glenda Millard
#39. Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.
Glenda Millard
#40. 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
#41. What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.
Glenda Radores
#42. Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
Glenda Millard
#43. Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.
Glenda Millard
#45. The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...
Glenda Millard
#46. O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories
Glenda Millard
#47. I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.
Glenda Bailey
#49. It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
Glenda Jackson
#50. 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
#51. I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
Glenda Jackson
#53. If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.
Glenda Jackson
#54. If he treats you a choice like A, B, C, and D, help him understand that YOU are not belong in the choices.
Glenda Radores
#55. Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.
Glenda Millard
#57. Some people, like my dad, have invisible scars; others, like Tia, have scars you can see.
Glenda Millard
#58. 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
#59. The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.
Glenda Green
#60. You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.
Glenda Millard
#61. An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.
Glenda Gilmore
#62. When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
Glenda Radores
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.
Glenda Bailey
#66. Doing what you LOVE is completely giving you SUCCESS.
Glenda Radores
#67. It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get your balance. That's why I held Billy's hand.
Glenda Millard
#68. Makes me wish I would have had my fork with me last night.
Glenda Diana
#69. I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.
Glenda Millard
#70. 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.
Glenda Jackson
#71. Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.
Glenda Helms
#72. 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
#73. Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Glenda Millard
#74. I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.
Glenda Millard
#75. To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.
Glenda Jackson
#76. I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.
Glenda Jackson
#77. Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
Glenda Millard
#78. If opportunity doesn't knock your door,then build a new one.
Glenda Radores
#79. 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
#80. Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions falling away. Through being the love that you are, you are empowered to transcend your sufferings.
Glenda Green
#81. 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
#82. I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
Glenda Jackson
#83. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
#84. I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.
Glenda Bailey
#85. Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.
Glenda Millard
#86. Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.
Glenda Jackson
#87. My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
Glenda Jackson
#89. If we marvel at God's law, our core essence delights in keeping it.
Glenda Mathes
#90. I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.
Glenda Millard
#91. I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.
Glenda Jackson
#93. I'm active on Facebook and Twitter professionally, then personally I have my own Facebook account, but nobody knows my name or anything. I don't use it to connect with my friends, but I love to play on it.
Glenda Bailey
#94. There are traditionalists, and there are people in the middle, which is where I am. I still get my newspaper delivered. I love the ritual of it. But I also jump into the cab when I leave home and I look at some BBC on my iPad.
Glenda Bailey
#95. Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.
Glenda Bailey
#96. He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.
Glenda Millard
#97. When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.
Glenda Jackson
#98. Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.
Glenda Green
#99. If I run, i will make sure that you'll not find me until you know where i will return.
Glenda Radores
#100. The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.
Glenda Millard
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