When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life. Glenda Jackson More Quotes by Glenda Jackson More Quotes From Glenda Jackson I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. Glenda Jackson usedsometimesbelieve 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 motivationalinspirationalfunny 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 movementeyegiving I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. Glenda Jackson oppositionstrongercases If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem. Glenda Jackson strongproblempeople 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 dramalaughingpeople The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. Glenda Jackson laughingsexthinking Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. Glenda Jackson rewardslittlesmen 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 littlespregnancychildren 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 realizingtheatrethinking To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something. Glenda Jackson passionimportantwant I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. Glenda Jackson agewiselooks 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 namessongpast Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. Glenda Jackson very-goodambitious 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 essentialstasksactors I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated. Glenda Jackson disappointeddefeatedfailure people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid. Glenda Jackson movienumberspeople 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. Glenda Jackson generationsplaylittles 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 camelsagefaces 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 heydayerasthinking
