Daily Inspiration Quote by Glenn Close

Glenn Close’s line lands like a backstage note slipped to the audience: catharsis isn’t a luxury, it’s part of the job. Coming from an actress who’s built a career on women at the edge of composure, it reads less like a self-help slogan and more like a quiet defense of intensity. Close has played characters who don’t get the neat release life promises - they simmer, calcify, explode, or weaponize restraint. In that light, “something about” feels telling: she’s sidestepping therapy-talk certainty and pointing instead to a lived, almost bodily truth about emotional discharge.

The intent is practical. Catharsis is what art can do that polite conversation can’t: give messy feelings a container and a deadline. It’s also what performance demands from the performer - access to real emotion without being consumed by it. The subtext is that modern life is engineered to postpone release. We’re trained to keep functioning, keep producing, keep scrolling. Catharsis is “very important” because without it, the pressure doesn’t disappear; it curdles into anxiety, cruelty, numbness.

Context matters: Close comes from a tradition of prestige acting where audiences buy a ticket to feel wrecked, then restored. Her phrasing makes catharsis sound less like melodrama and more like maintenance. Not indulgence, but sanitation. The line quietly argues for art’s public-health function: it gives people permission to feel the feelings they’re otherwise asked to manage privately, silently, and alone.