Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Clayburgh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Jill Clayburgh.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Jill Clayburgh was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema. She received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Paul Mazursky's comedy drama An Unmarried Woman (1978). She also received a second consecutive Academy Award nomination for Starting Over (1979) as well as four Golden Globe nominations for her film performances.

American - Actress | Born: April 30, 1944

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I want to be an actress, not a personality.

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

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

Jill Clayburgh

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Jill Clayburgh

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

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

Jill Clayburgh

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

Jill Clayburgh

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

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

Jill Clayburgh

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

Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Clayburgh

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