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 Glenda Jackson Quotation"I had no real ambition about acting. But I knew there had to be something better than the bloody chemist's shop." [On her Oscars] "My mother polishes them to within an inch of their lives until the metal shows. That sums up the Academy Awards - all glitter on the outside and base metal coming through. Nice presents for a day. But they don't make you any better." "If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem." "An actor can do Hamlet right through to Lear, men of every age and every step of spiritual development. Where's the equivalent for women? I don't fancy hanging around to play Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'. Life's too short." [speaking in 1974] "Ideally, one would love to work in England. But if no one in England is going to take their courage in both hands and dig into their pockets and finance films - then, you're going to have to work abroad." "I was the archetypal spotty teenager who suffered the tortures of the damned because I wasn't like those girls in the magazines. I had lank, greasy hair and I was fat and spotty." "If anyone thinks I looked sexy stripped in 'The Music Lovers', they must think Minnie Mouse is sexy." [on acting] "You'd think it something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realise how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good." "Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward." "You see women in America who've had face-lifts - faces as smooth as melons. It makes my stomach turn to think about voluntarily putting myself under a surgeon's knife." "One of the most depressing remarks that was made when I first came to the House of Commons was made by an MP who said, 'What d'you want to come here for? You're famous already'." Movie Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) as Alex: Alex : Hmm... [sniffing] Alex : It's funny, there's a smell that is just like po... [pause] Alex : Children... are you smoking pot? Lucy : Are you bourgeois? Bob : Don't come to me like a possessive wife! Alex : Well, I wouldn't if you hadn't left me with five children and a dog! Bob : Look, I know you feel you're not getting enough of me, but you're getting all there is. Alex : Well, you're spreading yourself a little thin, aren't you? Timothy : Blecch! Alex : Serves you right for pinching my breakfast. Timothy : Not *your* breakfast! Papa paid for it! Bob : Well, there's socialism for you. Alex : Is this milk all right for Bob to drink? Lucy : It's mummy's. Alex : I'm sure she won't mind. Lucy : It's *mummy's*, for John-Stuart. He's not *weaned* yet. Alex : Oh. Bob : [gags] Oh, my God. Alex : I can't see why my having an affair with someone on and off is any worse that being *married* for a course or two at mealtimes. Mrs. Greville : But darling... you keep throwing in your hand because you haven't got the whole thing. There *is* no whole thing, my poppet. You have to make it work. Movie Title: Women in Love (1969) as Gudrun Brangwen: Gudrun Brangwen : How frightfully kind of you! Gudrun Brangwen : [having an orgasm] Oh, my God, Gerald! Shall I die? Gudrun Brangwen : I am not married. Truth is best. Movie Title: House Calls (1978) as Ann Atkinson: Ann Atkinson : You broke my heart! Dr. Charley Nichols : Don't worry, I'm a doctor, I can fix it. Movie Title: Hopscotch (1980) as Isobel von Schonenberg: Kendig : Yours was gin and ginger ale, right? Isobel von Schonenberg : Mine was NEVER gin and ginger ale. Montrochet '69, right next to the beer. Movie Title: The Music Lovers (1970) as Antonina Milyukova: Antonina Milyukova : He's never loved another woman, has he, mother? No one else. But I, but I have so *many* lovers, so many lovers, so many, so many! See how many lovers, mother! See how many, how many, how many . . . Peter Tchaikovsky : There's nothing left in me! Antonina Milyukova : How cruel. How can you say that? Don't I live? Everyone thinks they can do as they like with me! Even you! [in insane asylum] Antonina Milyukova : My husband's a most famous man. I'm Madame Tchaikovsky from Moscow. My husband, he really did love me! Oh, Peter, my love... [pauses, expression changes] Antonina Milyukova : He hated me. He hated me! Movie Title: A Touch of Class (1973) as Vicki: Vicki : My one chance to get raped, and you can't get your bloody trousers off. |
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