Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
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I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
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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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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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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
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What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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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'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.
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I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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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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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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I think I am an adult.
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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.
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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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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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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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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.
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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.
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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.