Glenn Close Quotes

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

  Glenn Close

• 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

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

  Glenn Close

• When I hear that somebody’s difficult, I think, Oh, I can’t wait to work with them.

  Glenn Close

• 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

• We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

  Glenn Close

• There’s something about a catharsis that is very important.

  Glenn Close

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

  Glenn Close

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Glenn Close

• It is very difficult for girls. They’re told to look one way, but to act another way.

  Glenn Close

• 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

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

  Glenn Close

• 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

• I’m an actor, that’s my contribution.

  Glenn Close

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

  Glenn Close

• 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

• I never got into this business thinking I’d be like a movie star.

  Glenn Close

Glenn Close (33)

Birth:	19th March, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Glenn Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. She is an American actress. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and received six Academy Award nominations. Her role in several films include: The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs, Jagged Edge, Hamlet, Reversal of Fortune, 101 Dalmatians, Paradise Road, Air Force One, Cookie's Fortune, Nine Lives, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Her role in TV include: Serving in Silence(TV film), The Lion in Winter(TV film), The Shield(TV series), and Damages(TV series).

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