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Jill Clayburgh
American
Actress
About the author
Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Selling
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Want
#Personality
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,
American
Actress
#Thinking
#Children
#Family
#Career
#Writing
#Son
#Party
#Birthday
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#People
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,
American
Actress
#World
#Dancing
#Individuality
#Women
#Optimism
There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#People
#Stairs
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,
American
Actress
#Movies
#Women
#Treasure
#Bugs
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Life
#Imagination
#First
#Environment
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Character
#Now
I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Love
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Kids
#Information
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Kids
#Work
#Growing up
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,
American
Actress
#Character
#Thinking
#Experience
#Thoughts
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Theater
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,
American
Actress
#Friends
#Night
#Wine
Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Character
#Help
#Clothes
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Woman
#Tears
I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
Jill Clayburgh,
American
Actress
#Yoga