There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
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.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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.
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.
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.
Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
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.
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.
