Jacqueline Bisset
1944-|
Biography
Born in Weybridge, Surrey, England 
Jacqueline Bisset Quotes
“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.”“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.” “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 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.” “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.” “Your voice is your tool and represents you. It’s very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.” “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.” “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.” “A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” “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.” “I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.” “I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.” “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.” “I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.” “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.” “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.” “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.” “The picture is called Class but the ad campaign is anything but. They’ve put my head onto another body and given me enormous bosoms. All the guys are going to be disappointed.” “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.” “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 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.” “Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.” “The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.” “We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.” “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.” “Marriage has just never interested me.” “I have never given up on men easily.” “I’ve always loved men.” “I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.” “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.” “There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” “Time seems to stop in certain places.” “I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.” “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.” “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.” “At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.” “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 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.” “I think I am an adult.” “I’d like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.” “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.” “I’m a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I’m just interested in things remaining fresh.” “To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.” “Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.” “You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.” |
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The Actress
Jacqueline Bisset has appeared in the following films:The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) Cul-de-sac (1966) Drop Dead Darling (1966) The Cape Town Affair (1967) Casino Royale (1967) Two for the Road (1967) The Detective (1968) The Sweet Ride (1968) Bullitt (1968) The First Time (1969) L’échelle blanche (1969) Airport (1970) The Grasshopper (1970) The Mephisto Waltz (1971) Believe in Me (1971) Secrets (1971) Stand Up and Be Counted (1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) La nuit américaine (1973) Le magnifique (1973) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) The Spiral Staircase (1975) Der Richter und sein Henker (1975) La donna della domenica (1975) St. Ives (1976) The Deep (1977) The Greek Tycoon (1978) Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) Amo non amo (1979) When Time Ran Out... (1980) Inchon (1981) Rich and Famous (1981) Class (1983) Under the Volcano (1984) Forbidden (1984) High Season (1987) La maison de jade (1988) Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) Wild Orchid (1989) Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Hoffman’s honger (1993) Est & Ouest: Les paradis perdus (1993) Les marmottes (1993) La cérémonie (1995) Dangerous Beauty (1998) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Les gens qui s’aiment (2000) The Sleepy Time Gal (2001) New Year’s Day (2001) Latter Days (2003) Swing (2003) Fascination (2004) The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005) Domino (2005) Save the Last Dance 2 (2006) Death in Love (2008) Le concert (2009) The Last Film Festival (2010) Vivaldi (2010) |
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