Glenn Close

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

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

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

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.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

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

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

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

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

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

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

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

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

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.

I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular, even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater, and when I first went into movies, I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

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.

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

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

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

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

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

Diva has a negative connotation.