Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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Jacqueline Bisset

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 13, 1944

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

Jacqueline Bisset

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Jacqueline Bisset

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Jacqueline Bisset

I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.

Jacqueline Bisset

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

Jacqueline Bisset

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

Jacqueline Bisset

I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

Jacqueline Bisset