Glenda Jackson Quotes

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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.

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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.

Glenda Jackson

The best theater is trying to tell the truth, and the best politics is trying to tell the truth.

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What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they’re not absolutes anymore.

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Usually, if there is a woman‘s part in a piece, there’s only one, so you’ve got no other actresses to work with.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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No, I didn’t think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party‘s basic principles, which have to do with equality and ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. You know, the golden rules.

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If a woman is successful, then she’s deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we’re all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.

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I told them I wouldn’t sign a blank cheque.

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

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Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real.

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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.

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

Glenda Jackson

My fear with ‘Lear’ was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it’s all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here.

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It always amazed me – it still does – that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again.

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You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.

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

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As I’ve had occasion to say before, I’m a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

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

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

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

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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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My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know – education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.

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The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed.

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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.

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

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You can go onto that stage every night, and it’s always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don’t know if there’s any water in the pool.

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