A biography for Jacqueline Bissethasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.”
“I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”
“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'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.”
“I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.”
“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.”
“I've always loved men.”
“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.”
“I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.”
“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.”
“What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.”
“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.”
“I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.”
“I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.”
“To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.”
“Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.”
“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.”
“Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.”