I’m a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I’m just interested in things remaining fresh. – Jacqueline Bisset
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. – 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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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
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. – 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
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
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – Jacqueline Bisset
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. – 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. – Jacqueline Bisset
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films. – 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. – Jacqueline Bisset
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life. – Jacqueline Bisset