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" 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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" 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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She

Mother

" I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you're actually doing a play. It's not quite 24/7, but it's the work that counts. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Glenda Jackson

Money

You

" 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

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Barriers

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

" 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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" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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