Jacqueline Bisset quotes

Jacqueline Bisset is an acclaimed English actress known for her prominent roles in both Hollywood and European films. Her career has spanned several decades, earning her critical praise and numerous award nominations. She continues to be recognized for her elegance and versatile performances on screen. Here are 53 of her quotes:

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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

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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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Marriage has just never interested me.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

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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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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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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.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have never given up on men easily.

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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 think I am an adult.

Jacqueline Bisset

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

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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