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

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

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.

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

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

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

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.

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

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

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 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.

I think I am an adult.

Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

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 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 can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

I have never given up on men easily.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

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

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

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

Time seems to stop in certain places.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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've always loved men.

Marriage has just never interested me.

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 have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

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.