Glenda Jackson Quotes

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Glenda Jackson

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 9, 1936

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.

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

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I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My job is to see the world through the character's eyes.

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