Glenda Jackson Quotes

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

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.

One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

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.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.