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Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician.

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

Children, Everything, Job, Jobs, Parent, Properly

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.

Independence, Man, Men, Pride, Sexuality

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

Difficult, Lousy, Painfully, Realizing, Theatre, Thinking

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Age, Audacious, Look, Looks, Old, Wise

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

Strong, People, Problem

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

Ability, Atrophy, Exercise, Lack

Nobody really needs a mink coat. . . Except the mink.

Needs, Coats, Vegetarian, Nobody, Except

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Deal, Littles, Men, Reward, Rewards, Work

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

Bearer, Bed, Old, Resentment, Scores, World

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Defeated, Disappointed, Failure, Times

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

Asked, Laugh, Laughing, Needs, Sex, Thinking

If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.

People, Events, Actors, Cocooned, Lose

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Believe, Sometimes, Used, Know, Nothing

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.

Glorious, Names, Past, Song, Thank

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

Everyone, Live, Nice, World, Would Be

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.

Mean, Night, Peculiar, Used, Performance

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

Contrary, Generations, Littles, Open, Play, Theories

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from

Damage, Eras, Extraordinary, Heyday, Suffered, Thinking

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden. . . In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Humility, Motherhood, Place, Successful

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

Actor, Actors, Essentials, Fascinating, Task, Tasks

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