Top 30 Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

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.

I think I am an adult.

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 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.

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.

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

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 went to see Oliver Stone’s ‘Heaven & Earth,’ which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

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

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.

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.

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.

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

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

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.

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

Marriage has just never interested me.

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

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.

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

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

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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