Quotes by Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

[On being asked, ‘Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?’:] No.

Laughing

Sex

Thinking

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.

Generations

Littles

Play

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

Ability

Atrophy

Exercise

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.

Funny

Inspirational

Motivational

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.

Actresses

Jobs

Looks

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.

Drama

Laughing

People

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.

Independence

Men

Pride

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.

Age

Camels

Faces

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Defeated

Disappointed

Failure

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

Cases

Opposition

Stronger

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Ability

Actors

Actresses

Age

Ambitious

Atrophy

Bed

Believe

Blood

Business

Camels

Cases

Children

Coats

Defeated

Disappointed

Drama

Eras

Essentials

Exercise

Eye

Faces

Failure

Funny

Generations

Giving

Heyday

Humility

Important

Independence

Inspirational

Jobs

Just Dance

Laughing

Like You

Littles

Looks

Mean

Men

Money

Motherhood

Motivational

Movement

Movie

Names

Needs

Nice

Night

Numbers

Opposition

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Quotes by Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

[On being asked, ‘Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?’:] No.

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.

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

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

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