Glenn Close movie quotes

“I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.”
Glenn Close

“- Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives.
- Roy Hobbs: How... what do you mean?
- Iris Gaines: The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.”
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“- Roy Hobbs: Is he with his father?
- Iris Gaines: No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.
- Roy Hobbs: Sure. A father makes all the difference.”

Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“Vanity and happiness are incompatible.”

Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“- Roy Hobbs: I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.
- Iris Gaines: And then?
- Roy Hobbs: And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“- Jenny Fields: Is that the latest fashion?
- Garp: No, Mom, that's the oldest profession.”

Glenn Close - Jenny Fields
Robin Williams - Garp

“Do you still think men love the way we do? No... men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give. They are not capable of devoting themselves exclusively to one person. So to hope to be made happy by love is a certain cause of grief.”

Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“- Vicomte de Valmont: I often wonder how you manage to invent yourself.
- Marquise de Merteuil: Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Vicomte de Valmont
Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“I don’t give a rat fart what you’re smoking kid. If you think you’re hiding it honey you’re dumb as a bag of hair.”
Glenn Close - Mamaw

“Everyone in this world is one of three kinds. Good terminator, a bad terminator, and neutral.”
Glenn Close - Mamaw

“You’ve always got a reason! But it’s always someone else’s fault! At some point, you’re going to have to take responsibility.”
Glenn Close - Mamaw

“Family’s the only thing that means a goddamn. You’ll learn that.”
Glenn Close - Mamaw

“There's nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt.”
Glenn Close - Joan Castleman

“Everyone needs approval, Joe.”
Glenn Close - Joan Castleman

“- Joan Castleman: I can't take the humiliation of holding your coat and arranging your pills and picking the crumbs out of your beard and being shoved aside with all the other wives to talk about some goddamn shopping trip while you, while you say to all the, the gathering sycophants that your wife doesn't write! Your wife, who just won the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Joan Castleman
Jonathan Pryce - Joe Castleman

“You play fair with me, I'll play fair with you.”
Glenn Close - Alex Forrest

“Darling, red isn't your color. Give me the hat. Give me the hat, or you will become a hat.”

Glenn Close - Cruella De Vil

“- Cruella de Vil: My dalmatian puppy coat. The coat of dreams. The ultimate fur coat, that was denied me by that canine cabal, for which I have lost three years of my life! Alonso, we're going to make them pay.
- Alonzo: Yes. How much?
- Cruella de Vil: Dipstick, she called him. What fiendish justice! He escaped me, but I shall wreak my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Cruella de Vil
Tim McInnerny - Alonzo

“Take the drawing from Anita, and hand it to me! Is that difficult? Thank you. Now go and stand somewhere until I need you.”

Glenn Close - Cruella De Vil

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life.”
Glenn Close - Jenny Fields

“- Vicomte de Valmont: I have no intention of breaking down her prejudices. I want her to believe in God and virtue and the sanctity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. I want the excitement of watching her betray everything that's most important to her. Surely you understand that. I thought betrayal was your favorite word.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Vicomte de Valmont
Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“Say something! Do something! Be a man! I already have a butler!”

Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow

- Red Puckett: Huh? What's this?
- Granny: Oh, it says "World's Greatest Grandma".
- Red Puckett: Grandma, I can read. It says "Battle of the Iron Cage Gladiators".

Anne Hathaway - Red Puckett
Glenn Close - Granny

“- Jenny Fields: Are you gonna go to sleep or you gonna stay up and think your weird thoughts?
- Young Garp: I'll stay up and think weird thoughts for a while.”
Glenn Close - Jenny Fields
James McCall - Young Garp

“- Margaret Drummond: I was in China when the Japanese invaded and I think that the people they despised the most were Europeans and prisoners then women.
- Adrienne Pargiter: Well that's us. All three.”
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond
Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter