British - Actress | May 9, 1936 -
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
Glenda Jackson
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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.
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One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.
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You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
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I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
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Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.
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Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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