14 Quotes & Sayings By Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset is a French actress who has worked on over sixty films. She was born on June 25, 1951, in Paris, France. Bisset was first discovered by director Louis Malle while she was still a student at the prestigious Lycée Français de New York (now Lycée Français de Los Angeles) and subsequently made her film debut in Malle's Pretty Baby (1978). She married businessman John Asher in 1976; the couple divorced five years later Read more

In 1983 Bisset starred with Richard Gere and Elliott Gould in Bob Fosse's drama All That Jazz and gained international attention for her performance as a grief-stricken single woman at loose ends in Martin Scorsese's New York City of the early 1970s, Tootsie (1982). Following her marriage to Australian actor Bruce Spence in 1986, she returned to acting with a role as a Frenchwoman visiting Los Angeles for a modeling job in Stanley Donen's comedy The Man with Two Brains (1983). In 1989 she appeared as the prostitute "Dora" opposite Richard Burton in Ed Wood, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

She is currently married to television personality Richard Belzer.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude...
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. Jacqueline Bisset
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We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library. Jacqueline Bisset
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Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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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. Jacqueline Bisset
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I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to. Jacqueline Bisset
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. Jacqueline Bisset