Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

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.

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.

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.

I have never given up on men easily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I've always loved men.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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.