Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.