Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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Jacqueline Bisset

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 13, 1944

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

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I have never given up on men easily.

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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.

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

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I think I am an adult.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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I've always loved men.

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My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

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