English - Actress | September 13, 1944 -
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.
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Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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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.
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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
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People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
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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.
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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.
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