Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson, CBEis a British actress and Labour Party politician. She first became a Member of Parliamentin 1992, and represented Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 May 1936
strong people problem
If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.
children motherhood blood
Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.
thinking theatre realizing
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.
movie numbers people
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.
passion important want
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.
sex thinking laughing
[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.
play generations littles
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.
thinking eras damage
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
coats needs vegan
Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.
exercise ability atrophy
ability atrophies through lack of exercise.
Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?
needs like-you just-dance
You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
mean night peculiar
I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.
people events actors
If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.