Top 63 Quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

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.

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

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.

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 grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

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.

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.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

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