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.’ Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
