Quotes By Jacqueline Bisset

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.