Quotes from Glenn Close

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.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

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.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that'.

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.

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

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

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

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

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

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'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.

Love makes no sense at all. But it's the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.

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's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

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

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

Diva has a negative connotation.

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

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

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.