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Glenn Close
Actress
About the author
We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Actors
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Man
#Genius
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Act
#Girls
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
Glenn Close,
Actress
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,
Actress
#Control
#Name
#Worry
#Names
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,
Actress
#Want
#People
#Question
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,
Actress
#Saying
#Kitchen
I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Actor
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
Glenn Close,
Actress
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,
Actress
#Want
#Now
#Life
#Work
#Years
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,
Actress
#Talk
#Books
#Women
When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Work
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Behavior
#Blood
#Audiences
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,
Actress
#Right
#Being
#Question
#Women
#Ego
#Fools
#Reputation
#Temperament
You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Love
#Play
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Now
#Wealth
#Houses
I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Public
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,
Actress
#Acting
#Heart
#Soul
#Adventure
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Writing
#Actor
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Now
#Language
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Death
#Celebrity
#Actor
Diva has a negative connotation.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Negative
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,
Actress
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#People
#Crowds
I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Energy
#Actors
I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.
Glenn Close,
Actress
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Talk
#Work
#Talking
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Wind
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Time
#Law
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,
Actress
#Wife
#Thought
I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Thinking
#Business
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,
Actress
#Play
#Trying
#Talent
#Temperament
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
Glenn Close,
Actress
#Age