Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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


2. I think I am an adult.


3. I'm fascinated by a man with a twinkle in his eye.

4. I've always loved men.

5. I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

6. Marriage has just never interested me.




7. After filming "The Deep" (1977), all they talked about was my tits for the next four years. God, if I was going to do a picture like that, I'd have done it a lot sexier. That looked like two fried eggs on a platter.

8. Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

9. The picture is called "Class" (1983) but the ad campaign is anything but. They've put my head onto another body and given me enormous bosoms. All the guys are going to be disappointed.


10. 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.

11. I don't regret not having children. I am very much at peace with that. Perhaps I do have that occasional twinge, but you can't do everything.




12. You need to get in touch with your body...do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Time seems to stop in certain places.

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

17. 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.


18. 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.

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



20. Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

21. 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.

22. 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.

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

24. 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.



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

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

27. 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.

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

29. 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.



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

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

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

33. 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 color, a love of visual beauty.

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





35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

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

41. 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.

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

43. I have never given up on men easily.

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





45. 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.

46. 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.

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




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

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


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