Daily Inspiration Quote by Glenn Close

There is a quiet provocation in Glenn Close's blunt little line: the problem isn’t getting older, it’s getting cast. By refusing to make age the headline, she swerves around the most familiar Hollywood talking point (ageism) and lands on something even more damning: scarcity is baked into the system for everyone, and the myth of endless “great parts” is just that, a myth.

Close is also doing actor-to-actor truth-telling. “Good roles” doesn’t mean work; it means material with dimension, contradiction, stakes. The kind of writing that lets a performer be more than a function of plot or a reflection of someone else’s hero arc. Her career - packed with formidable, complicated women and famously punctuated by awards-season near-misses - gives the sentence extra bite. She’s not pleading for sympathy; she’s naming the grind behind prestige.

The subtext is strategic, too. If good roles are hard at any age, then the industry can’t absolve itself by pretending it only fails older women. It fails imagination. It defaults to formulas that flatten characters into types: ingenue, mom, villain, comic relief. Close’s line calls for better pipelines (writers, directors, producers willing to take risks) without turning the conversation into a single-issue complaint.

It’s a veteran’s critique delivered in plain language: the real battle isn’t time, it’s taste.