Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all good plays which you have to find. And that is part and parcel of ensuring that an audience gets what it's about.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize?

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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.

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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

Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

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