Top 63 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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.