Quotes by Glenn Close

• We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
• Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
• It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
• It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
• 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.
• It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
• 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.
• I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
• There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
• 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.
• 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.
• When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
• When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her 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.
• You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
• There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
• I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.
• Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
• As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
• Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
• Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
• Diva has a negative connotation.
• 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.
• I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
• I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
• I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.
• I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
• I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
• I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
• 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.
• I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
• 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.
• Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.