Jill Clayburgh Quotes

#1. I like being responsible for myself

Christian Bale

#2. Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

Anthony Fauci

#4. Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Jill Clayburgh

#5. 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

#6. I love who I am. I love what I've become.

Bernie Mac

#7. Opportunity has power over all things.

Sophocles

#8. I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Jill Clayburgh

#9. 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

#10. If you want to live greatly, you must also be willing to risk greatly. To get to the pearls, the diver needs to be willing to go deep and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

Jim Carrey

#12. Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Jill Clayburgh

#13. The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Pliny The Elder

#14. I think sleep is unrated.

Traci Lords

#15. I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh

#16. I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Jill Clayburgh

#17. Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

Emma Bull

#18. I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Jill Clayburgh

#19. People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Jill Clayburgh

#20. 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

#21. She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.

Miranda Emmerson

#22. 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

#23. I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

Claudia Schiffer

#24. 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

#25. Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you."
She sighed. "Such a romantic.

Kate Meader

#26. 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

#27. Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Joaquin Phoenix

#28. I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Jill Clayburgh

#29. Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

Gail Sheehy

#30. 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

#31. I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

Jill Clayburgh

#32. I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Jill Clayburgh

#33. There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Jill Clayburgh

#34. 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