Jill Clayburgh Quotes

• 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

  Interesting, Bugs, Treasure

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• 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

  Birthday, Inspiring, Children

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• 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

  Tears, Pouring, Faces

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• I dont 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 shes thinking.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Character, Thinking, Too Much

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Nice, Yoga, Long

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Growing Up, Kids, Growing

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Personality, Actresses, Want

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Sitting, Rooms, Theater

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• I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Character, Arms, Muscles

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Beautiful, Squash, Arms

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• 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

  Wine, Night, Two

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Running, People, Kind

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Nice, Agriculture, Would Be

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Character, Clothes, Helping

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• 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

  Dancing, Optimism, Political

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Fitness, Swim, Miles

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

  Jill Clayburgh

  Echoes, People, Film

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