Glenn Close Quotes

I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

So I'm always inspired by my fellow actors. And that's kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even.

I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular, even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater, and when I first went into movies, I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

Diva has a negative connotation.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.