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.
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.
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.
drama laughing people
comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.
fact grassroots organizing permanent playing positions proves remember sitting throughout town
Through the years, I remember sitting at roundtables doing grassroots organizing to better the township and to make it a more even playing ground. The fact that many of us are not able to get permanent positions throughout this town proves that while African-Americans have come a long way, we still have a long way to go.
One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.
british-actress
I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.
life love
When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.
becoming chosen level position surprised
On another level I'm not that surprised she has chosen to resign. I think her position was becoming more and more untenable.
british-actress dance heart love sing
You've got to sing sometimes like you don't need the money. Love sometimes like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance, dance, dance like nobody's watching. It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work.
good government neither nor party seriously
This is doing neither the party nor the government any good and I really seriously think ... Tessa should seriously think about staying.
acting laugh sex
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life.
afraid argument british-actress class debt education enter higher
The old argument that the working class won't enter higher education because they are afraid of getting into debt is patronizing.
absolutely rate secretary sorry state
I'm very sorry because I thought she was an absolutely first rate Secretary of State for International Development,