Jacqueline Bisset

“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.”

“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.”

“I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.”

“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.”

“There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.”

“I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.”

“Marriage has just never interested me.”

“I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”

“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.”