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" I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. "
Glenda Jackson
Better
Now
Sometimes
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" You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals. "
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" You've got to sing like you don't need the money. "
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" If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. "
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" My job is to see the world through the character's eyes. "
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" I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. "
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" If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota. "
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" As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist. "
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" 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. "
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" You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool. "
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" Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again? "
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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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" I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play. "
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" I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque. "
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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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" 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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Selfishness
Care
" Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with. "
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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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Laugh
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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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Nice
Live
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" My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through. "
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Long
She
Mother
" When I was feeding myself by being a professional actress, I never got a good notice in the 'Evening Standard.' And when I changed direction and became a Labour MP, I was the wrong political party for the 'Evening Standard.' "
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Political
Direction
Good
" My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. "
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Money
" 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. "
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" I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all. "
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Extraordinary
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" Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. "
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" I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. "
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" Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real. "
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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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Sitting
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" The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed. "
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" One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them. "
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" Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country. "
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She