Quotes from Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Marriage has just never interested me.

I have never given up on men easily.

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

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.