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.
— Jacqueline Bisset
What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.
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.
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
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.
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.
Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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.
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.
Time seems to stop in certain places.
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
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.
I've always loved men.
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
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 have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
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 grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
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.
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.
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.
I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
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 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.
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 always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
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.
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.
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'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.
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
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.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
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've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
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 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 think I am an adult.
