Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
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The different water colours create a powerful effect, and the sky last night was just so beautiful and breathtaking. And the frogs! I love the sound of these little frogs.
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I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
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I had a wonderful father, a very attractive man. He was a man who was very much a man. Interpret whatever you want by that.
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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.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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I have a certain admiration for a man of a certain type.
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When I began, I gave myself away to the crew much more fully. I gave away a lot of energy to people, energy which I needed.
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There are so many ways of judging an experience. I tend to be a gatherer, so I don't reject experiences, I embrace them all.
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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.
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I would sit there very quietly, because I was usually playing a fairly small part, with very big stars, but it was an incredible opportunity to learn.
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You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.
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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.
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Angelina is growing in incredible strides and I think she's doing amazingly brave things. She's an amazing young woman. She's very responsible.
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In the early morning, I stand and watch the sun rise behind that tiny little house out there on the spit of land beyond the pier.
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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.
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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.
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The minute I am back in England, I fall into all of the bad old eating habits.
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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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.
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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.
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I have never given up on men easily.
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In terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
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I'm looking to try and find the most creative, loving atmosphere in which to be.
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There's a real twist at the end of this movie, and the twist got me when I read the script, so I don't want to give it away for anyone else.
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You've got to work on your voice, it's your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
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It's been unbelievably pleasant. It was just a glorious day. We had lunch under an awning, looking out at the water.
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I didn't see a lot of good stuff come out of my parents' marriage, and I haven't seen a lot come out of a lot of marriages.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by a man with a twinkle in his eye.
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When the director talks too much on the set, and there's too much going on, you can't fully absorb what they want you to do.
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It was exciting working with him. But he was a hip American and I was very English. His phrases would drive me nuts. I didn't know what a dude was or a soul chick. I did find him attractive, but a little bit scary. He'd get on his bike and take off like a wild alley cat; that was his escape from fame.
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Living in international hotels, you could be anywhere.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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Men nowadays welcome having women around, and they don't feel threatened in the same way.
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Some directors are very good, but they don't have their own vision. They may be following a studio's view, or the script is not fully embedded in their psyche.
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
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I have had time to deal with some things in my personal life. I just lost a family member, and my family is dwindling fast, which is very sad. But life's about balance, isn't it?
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There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
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I don't see Angelina very often. I'm very fond of her.
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To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
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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.
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Perhaps you don't get handed the big American productions, but, quite honestly, who would want to be in a lot of them?
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From my point of view, not being a good swimmer, and realising that diving and swimming have little to do with each other, it was a memorable experience. We had to do a lot of swimming underwater, and there were long distances to cover from point A to B.
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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.
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My parents divorced after 28 years of marriage.
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Our age gap is not a big issue. It just depends on what you have in common and, although Emin is much younger, he's a very mature man. There are things that are different about someone who is not of the same generation as you: they don't know everything you know; they look at things differently, but things can work out just fine.
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Marriage has just never interested me.
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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.
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There was a whole language to get in touch with to be able to shoot a film underwater. Inadvertently, I almost caused some problems, and we became even more aware, under water, how dependent we were on each other.
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I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
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We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
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I have never had any cosmetic surgery. I've never worried about age. I don't think all the nips and tucks look good. If these women who've had work done looked sideways in the mirror, they would see that they get a stiff curtain across their face. I think they do it because they are terrified of not being loved and of other people's opinions. Things on my body are not up as much as they used to be, and that's a bore. So I just smile more, which helps. I am becoming a fuller person as I get older.
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You really had to pay attention. To keep our spirits up when we had been weeks under water, they would play music like the theme from Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey.
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I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.
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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.
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It was very consuming, in terms of the diving. My memory of Bermuda is a mixed one, because I can't remember having a lot of time off.
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I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
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They said at the time I was doing The Greek Tycoon that I wasn't really doing her. For whatever reason, they kept insisting that this wasn't really her story, and I said, That's absurd.
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To a visitor, it might seem strange to be part of the charged atmosphere of a film for two or three months.
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I have not put my head under water since. I always seem to be around idiots who are likely to jump on top of me. If I feel like swimming, I will do it when no one else is around. I am certainly a better swimmer now than when I filmed The Deep.
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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
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I can feel quite judgmental about a lot of things.
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Truffaut was a filmmaker I loved, and I knew his work well. I didn't know big American productions.
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You need a degree of mutual support to have a happy set, and it is so much more fun when everyone is happy to see each other, and it can be a great joy.
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I felt that I was going home to what I wanted to do in cinema. My inner heart was absolutely comfortable.
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I'm not saying I wouldn't like to get married. Some part of me would. But I don't believe there is any real security. The point is to have respect.
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Not one newspaper that came into the house ever left it. There were masses of books everywhere and furniture enough for three homes. My brother and I were extremely upset by it - and have now turned into clean freaks.
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The whole of England has just changed tremendously. There are positive things in it.
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Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
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I was thinking about the danger. I truly wondered whether I would survive the film. But there are sometimes walls to climb, and the more scared you are, sometimes, the better.
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I look at photos of myself and think, "God, if I had realized I was so cute, I would have been naughtier!" But you could put any woman in a wet T-shirt and men would lust after her.
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Most actresses I know are frustrated, but you have to adapt to the reality. I find a small part in something interesting, or find an independent film.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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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.
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Success as a woman has changed me. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.
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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.
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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.
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Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.
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With directors, I don't get into a lot of discussion. I ask my questions before I go on to the set. Directors are too overwhelmed, and it's better to sort out any problems before you start.
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When we come home after working all day, and I have to say goodbye to my friends, I panic.
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The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
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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 a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining.
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If you like the work of a director, and you want to join their world, it's a lovely thing to be part of.
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I went to America, and that's where I had a chance to learn how to act, how to behave around a sound stage.
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Mostly, my interests are with people.
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Saturdays were for riding horses. It cost a lot of money to go into London. I was a bit of a loner. I read a lot.
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I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and interest. We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
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I grew up in a small town, so it was thrilling to come to London in the 1960s. Everyone was experimenting and having fun. We would go to Soho and meet all those incredible image changers: Roman Polanski, David Bailey, The Beatles, Ursula Andress and Terence Stamp, who is still a close friend.
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The picture is called Class (1983) but the ad campaign is anything but. They've put my head onto another body and given me enormous bosoms. All the guys are going to be disappointed.
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I'm looking for good roles. That's why I produced Rich and Famous myself. I read the script, and I thought it should be made.
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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Unless the proper steps are taken to reach the climax of the story, you don't have much to work with. Watching the rushes helps me, and it stops me getting tics, and repeating myself.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
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Some actors believe in discussing everything ad infinitum, and you can see that people get muddled.
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I was always very friendly, but over the years, the projects I got interested in became more consuming on some level, even if they were small. I had to learn to balance.
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I don't watch the television much. I brought along a big pile of books, but I haven't read any of them.
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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.
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together.
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I wanted to dance. I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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