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Glenda Jackson

When I was feeding myself by being a professional actress, I never got a good notice in the ‘Evening Standard.’ And when I changed direction and became a Labour MP, I was the wrong political party for the ‘Evening Standard.’

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Glenda Jackson

I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you’re actually doing a play. It’s not quite 24/7, but it’s the work that counts.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

No, I’m not recognized in London. What would people recognize?

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Glenda Jackson

You can go onto that stage every night, and it’s always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don’t know if there’s any water in the pool.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they’re not absolutes anymore.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Rock Hudson. He was an absolute human being. Charming, funny, real.

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Glenda Jackson

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

You don’t do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn’t win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

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Glenda Jackson

As I’ve had occasion to say before, I’m a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

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Glenda Jackson

My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know – education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don’t find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they’re there as an adjunct, and that hasn’t changed at all.

– Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

If a woman is successful, then she’s deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we’re all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.

– Glenda Jackson

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