Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I've always loved men.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Time seems to stop in certain places.

Marriage has just never interested me.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

I think I am an adult.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

I have never given up on men easily.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.