Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson, CBEis a British actress and Labour Party politician. She first became a Member of Parliamentin 1992, and represented Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 May 1936
children motherhood blood
Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.
movie numbers people
people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.
passion important want
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.
world bed resentment
I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.
sex thinking laughing
[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.
coats needs vegan
Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.
strong people problem
If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.
nice world would-be
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
needs like-you just-dance
You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
mean night peculiar
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.
drama laughing people
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.
jobs looks actors
Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.
song past names
The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.
british-actress
I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.