Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Glenn Close
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
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 think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
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.
Diva has a negative connotation.
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
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 don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.
We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
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.
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
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.
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
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.
You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.
I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.
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.
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 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.
My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.
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.
Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.
I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.
Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
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've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
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.
A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
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.
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.
I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
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.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
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