Glenn Close Quotes
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Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.
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I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.
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I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
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What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
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The word diva has a negative connotation.
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When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.
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There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
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I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
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A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
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When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.
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Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.
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People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.
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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.
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I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.
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I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.
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As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
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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.
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So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.
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There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
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In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.
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Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.
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I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.
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Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
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I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
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I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
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And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.
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I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.
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So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.
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When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
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I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.
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