Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

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.

Jacqueline Bisset

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 13, 1944

Topics

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During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

Andie MacDowell

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I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

Angie Stone

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I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Sol LeWitt

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We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold.

Simon McBurney

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There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

Roddy McDowall

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord Byron

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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Dogen

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A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

Douglas Coupland

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A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

Christopher Judge

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I don't go to pubs.

Peter Capaldi

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I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

Norman Lear

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