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" 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. "

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" 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

Age

Barriers

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

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

" 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. "

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

Glenda Jackson

Money

You

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real. "

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

" When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Glenda Jackson

Win

Gold

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. "

" 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. "