Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburghwas an American actress. She won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1978 film An Unmarried Woman, and received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for the 1979 film Starting Over...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth30 April 1944
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
growing-up kids growing
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.
personality actresses want
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
sitting rooms theater
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.
nice yoga long
I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
birthday children party
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
character discover experience sink sort thoughts
I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.
coolest
It's very comforting. It's very nice, ... She said something cute. She said, 'Well, you're the coolest person I know, Mom.'Ê
imagination takes
takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children.
both cage remember seeing
I remember seeing that movie with Nicolas Cage and whoever, where they're both alcoholics and she's a prostitute, and they're... built!
character arms muscles
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
character clothes helping
Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.
character thinking too-much
I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking,