Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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

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.

Character contributes to beauty.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

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 have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

The people who have given me shit, I say, like my mother, what did she say?- she said, ‘Go to hell, and don’t come back.’ However, however, however, my mother was not entirely me.

Marriage has just never interested me.

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

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

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.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

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.

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

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

I think I am an adult.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

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

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.

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.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I have never given up on men easily.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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