86 Quotes by Glenda Jackson

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that’s not the world we live in.

If I’m too strong for some people that’s their problem.

One knows one’s done one’s job as a parent properly if one’s children reject everything one stands for.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own ‘masculine’ qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

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.

I can’t actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

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.

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.

It’s appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.