Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset
Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bissetis an English actress. In 2010, she received France's highest honours, the Légion d'honneur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth13 September 1944
london towns small-town
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
teacher memories latin
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.
want fans being-myself
I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
long want energy
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
eyebrows decision serious-work
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with....
europe america intellectual
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.
struggle glasses interesting
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.
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.
feels people
People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.
children
I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
strings
I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.
people
Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.
needs people
I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
art best either films large movies offered parts people
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.