Jacqueline Bisset
Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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.
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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.
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.
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 lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.
I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.Collection: Inspirational
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.Collection: Character
What comes first in a relationship is lust - then more lust.Collection: Sex
You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.Collection: Forgiving
Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.Collection: Running
The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.Collection: Deeper
Character contributes to beauty.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Acting
If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.Collection: Thinking
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.Collection: Eyebrows
The people who have given me shit, I say, like my mother, what did she say?- she said, ‘Go to hell, and don’t come back.’ However, however, however, my mother was not entirely me.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Tired
I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.Collection: Character
You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.Collection: School
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.Collection: Successful
What comes first in a relationship is lust – then more lust.Collection: Firsts