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.

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.

Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others

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

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.

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

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.