Glenn Close famous quotes

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
-- Glenn Close

#Art #Acting #Outrage

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Tired #Men #Luxury

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

#Heart #Adventure #Soul

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Acceptance #People #Needs

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #House #Tragedy

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
-- Glenn Close

#Topics #Speak #Mental Illness

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Positive #Thinking #Stronger

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
-- Glenn Close

#Needs #Mental Health #Sunlight

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Leadership #Wisdom #Pain

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Tabloids

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

#Venues

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
-- Glenn Close

#People #Shy #Crowds

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
-- Glenn Close

#Age #Roles #Matter

Diva has a negative connotation.
-- Glenn Close

#Negative #Connotation

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

#Bunnies #Proud #Language

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Ego #Suffering #Fool

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Heart #Thinking #Voice

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Book #Survivor #Enough

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

#Actors #Vulnerable #Protect

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

#Important #Catharsis

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

#People #Want #Situation

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
-- Glenn Close

#House #Wealth #Bigs

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Names #Worry #Important

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

#Littles #Strange #Kind

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

#Men #Seductive #Genius

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Sacrifice #Years #Would Be

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
-- Glenn Close

#Actors #Contribution

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Energy #Actors

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
-- Glenn Close

#Stars #Thinking #Movie Star

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

#Writing #Actors #Lines

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Waiting #Difficult

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

#Blood #Upset #Behavior

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Acting #Molecules

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
-- Glenn Close

#Love #Dream #Real

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

#Thinking #Vocabulary #Mental Illness

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

#Funny #Acting #Actors

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

#Wind #Gone #Dressers

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

#Night #Oscars #Mistaken

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Play #Trying

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Book #Thinking #Wife

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

#Girl #Looks #Way

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Voice #Path #Insight

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
-- Glenn Close

#Character #Play #Doe

I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
-- Glenn Close

#Philosophy #Winning #Simple

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

#Talking #Bored

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.
-- Glenn Close

#Knives #Kitchen #Way

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

#Views #Law #Shields