Jill Clayburgh Quotes
"I want to be an actress, not a personality."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Personality, Want)
"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."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Birthday, Family, Son, Career, Children, Party, Thinking, Writing)
"People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: People)
"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Women, Optimism, Dancing, Individuality, World)
"There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful."
- Jill Clayburgh
"I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: People, Stairs)
"What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Movies, Women, Bugs, Treasure)
"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Time, Imagination, Life, Environment, First)
"I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Character, Now)
"I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Love)
"I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Time, Information, Kids)
"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Work, Growing up, Kids)
"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."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Experience, Character, Thoughts, Thinking)
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Theater)
"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Friends, Night, Wine)
"Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Character, Clothes, Help)
"A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Life, Tears, Woman)
"I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Yoga)