Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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Jacqueline Bisset

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 13, 1944

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.

Jacqueline Bisset

Marriage has just never interested me.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

Time seems to stop in certain places.

Jacqueline Bisset

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset