Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others

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.

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

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

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

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

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

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

I have never given up on men easily.

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

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 deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think I am an adult.

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 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 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.

Marriage has just never interested me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

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'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

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

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