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. – Jacqueline Bisset
Some people have said that I haven’t got the parts I should’ve got because of the way I look. – 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
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive. – Jacqueline Bisset
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It’s very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. – Jacqueline Bisset
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
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. – 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 grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household. – Jacqueline Bisset
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. – Jacqueline Bisset
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have. – Jacqueline Bisset
I’d like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. – Jacqueline Bisset
I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – 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 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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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
