Glenn Close Quotes


"Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Genius, Man)

"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Act, Girls)

"It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do."
- 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
(Related: Control, Name, Names, Worry)

"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
(Related: People, Question, Want)

"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
(Related: Kitchen, Saying)

"I'm an actor, that's my contribution."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Actor)

"There's something about a catharsis that is very important."
- 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
(Related: Life, Work, Now, Want, 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
(Related: Women, Books, Talk)

"When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Work)

"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Audiences, Behavior, Blood)

"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
(Related: Women, Being, Ego, Fools, Question, Reputation, Right, Temperament)

"You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Love, Play)

"There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Wealth, Houses, Now)

"I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear."
- Glenn Close
(Related: 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
(Related: Soul, Heart, Acting, Adventure)

"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Actor, Writing)

"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Language, Now)

"Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Death, Actor, Celebrity)

"Diva has a negative connotation."
- Glenn Close
(Related: 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
"I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people."
- Glenn Close
(Related: People, Crowds)

"I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Actors, Energy)

"I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting."
- Glenn Close
"I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Work, Talk, Talking)

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

"I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement."
- Glenn Close
(Related: 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
(Related: Wife, Thought)

"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Business, Thinking)

"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
(Related: Talent, Play, Temperament, Trying)

"Good roles are hard to find no matter what age."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Age)