Quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

• 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 work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
• 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 was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
• I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
• I think I am an adult.
• I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
• 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 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.
• A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
• I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
• I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.
• 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 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
• I have never given up on men easily.
• There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
• Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
• 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.
• You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
• Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
• 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.
• We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
• To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
• I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
• 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.
• 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.
• The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Marriage has just never interested me.
• Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
• I've always loved men.
• 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.
• At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.