Quotes from Jacqueline Bisset

Time seems to stop in certain places.

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.

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

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think I am an adult.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Marriage has just never interested me.

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.

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.