Glenn Close Quotes

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.

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.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

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

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

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

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.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

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.

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.

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.

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

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.

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 really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

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

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.

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.

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.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

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

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

The word diva has a negative connotation.

I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

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.

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.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

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

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

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

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.