Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
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I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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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.
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We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
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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.
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To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
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I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
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I think I am an adult.
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I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
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Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others
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My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.
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I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.
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Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.
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I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.
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Character contributes to beauty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.
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