“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The w...” — Glenda Jackson Quote

“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”

“You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.”

“Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.”

“I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.”

“Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.”

“When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.”