Jill Clayburgh Quotes

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

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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.

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• What bugs me is that movies don’t reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don’t treasure women as they get older.

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

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

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• 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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Jill Clayburgh (19)

Birth:	30th April, 1944
Death:	5th November, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Jill Clayburgh was born in New York City, New York, USA. She was an American actress. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress. She married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son and one daughter. Her role in several films include: The Wedding Party, The Terminal Man, Gable and Lombard, Silver Streak, An Unmarried Woman (Won- Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress), La Luna, Starting Over (Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress), First Monday in October, Shy People, Whispers in the Dark, Rich in Love, Fools Rush In, Never Again, and Bridesmaids. Her role in television include: Hustling (TV movie, Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie), Griffin and Phoenix (TV film), For the Love of Nancy (TV film), Leap of Faith (TV series), and Dirty Sexy Money (TV series).

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