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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
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. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. Glenda Jackson Read Quote
