Clayburgh Quotes & Sayings

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up. — Jill Clayburgh

That's quite gallant of you. After you've ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm. — Renee Ahdieh

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people. — Jill Clayburgh

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful. — Jill Clayburgh

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films. — Jill Clayburgh

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth. — Jill Clayburgh

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else. — Jill Clayburgh

Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom. — Chigozie Obioma

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

I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures. — Michelle Rodriguez

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm. — Jill Clayburgh

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

I want to be an actress, not a personality. — Jill Clayburgh

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

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

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

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

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

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater. — Jill Clayburgh

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

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus. — Ty Simpkins

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are. — Jill Clayburgh

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

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