I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them. — Glenn Close

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. — Glenn Close

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. — Glenn Close

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. — Glenn Close

I’ve always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn’t get made. — Glenn Close

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness. — Glenn Close

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

Love makes no sense at all. But it’s the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe. — Glenn Close

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there’s a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that’s just basic communication. — Glenn Close

When I hear that somebody’s difficult, I think, Oh, I can’t wait to work with them. — Glenn Close

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

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. — Glenn Close

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

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

I’ve distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die! — Glenn Close

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world. — Glenn Close

I’m not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I’ve slowly been drawn into the sea. — Glenn Close

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. — Glenn Close

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world. — Glenn Close

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

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness — Glenn Close

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. — 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. — Glenn Close

Celebrity is death–celebrity–that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor. — Glenn Close

The word diva has a negative connotation. — Glenn Close

I’m an actor, that’s my contribution. — Glenn Close

I’ve often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. — Glenn Close

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

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. — Glenn Close

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. — Glenn Close