Quote: My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: You've got to sing like you don't need the money. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: ability atrophies through lack of exercise. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act. [Glenda Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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. [Glenda Jackson]