Daily Inspiration Quote by Glenn Close

A glamour anecdote with a wince built in, Glenn Close’s line is doing two jobs at once: name-dropping classic Hollywood spectacle while quietly puncturing it. The Scarlett O’Hara reference isn’t random; it’s shorthand for a whole mythology of feminine perfection achieved through discomfort, engineering, and a little humiliation. By invoking Gone With the Wind, Close borrows the cultural glow of an old-school epic, then flips it into something tactile and slightly absurd: a grown woman being physically compressed into an image.

“Literally squeezed” is the tell. She insists on the bodily truth beneath the costume drama fantasy, grounding the joke in the backstage reality of acting, where beauty is often a production choice, not a personal trait. The dresser becomes both accomplice and enforcer, a worker who makes the illusion possible by treating the actor like a malleable prop. It’s funny because it’s vivid, but it’s also a small indictment of how the industry normalizes pain as part of “looking right.”

There’s a sly power move in the way Close tells it. As a veteran performer, she can afford to narrate the indignities with charm instead of shame, reclaiming the story from the gaze that demanded the cinched waist in the first place. The subtext lands in today’s language of body autonomy and “red carpet torture,” but it’s rooted in a longer lineage: women’s bodies as set pieces, and the quiet labor - often other women’s labor - that straps them into place.