Quotes by Glenda Jackson - Page 2

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Circle
Formed
Ideal
Perfect Circle
Strangers
Sends
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Actors
Mean
Night
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My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Exhausted
Interesting Things
Lear
Rehearsing
Vocal
Physical
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Awards
Disappear
Gold
Polished
Base
Front
Layer
Metal
Thin
Underneath
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Audience
Energy
Interaction
Parcel
Good Character Your
Ensuring
Gets
Part And Parcel
Plays
Unleash
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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 / Politician
Basic Principles
Believer
Do Unto Others
Golden
Labour
Principles
Regard
Unto
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Important
Passion
Want
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Generations
Littles
Play
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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 / Politician
Labour
Proof
Transformed
Labour Government
Millions Of People
Transformative
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Drama
Laughing
People
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it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Children
Littles
Pregnancy
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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.
Glenda Jackson / Politician
Actors
Littles
People
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