Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
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I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
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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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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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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 want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
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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 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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I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
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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'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'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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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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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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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 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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I think I am an adult.
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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'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 grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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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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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.