Jacqueline Bisset Quotes, Thoughts and Image

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others

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

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Marriage has just never interested me.

What comes first in a relationship is lust - then more lust.

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

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

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.

You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

Character contributes to beauty.

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

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

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.

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.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

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

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

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

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

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.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

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

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.

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.

I have never given up on men easily.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

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.

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.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

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.

My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

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.