Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Time seems to stop in certain places.

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

I think I am an adult.

Marriage has just never interested me.

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'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.

I have never given up on men easily.

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

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

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

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.