Clayburgh Jill Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real ... and an illusion at the same time. — Masamune Shirow

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

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

For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star. — Jean-Marie Lustiger

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

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

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise. — Mireille Mathieu

Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines. — Raymond Chandler

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

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven. — George Allen

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

As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. — William Baziotes

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

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