Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

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

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.

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.

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

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.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I've always loved men.

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.

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.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

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.

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

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

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