Quotations and phrases - 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

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

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 just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.
-- 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 like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.
-- Jill Clayburgh

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

I loved it, but I really have to come to rehearsal. I had to spend time with the material. I don't know how people do it; it's very complex.
-- Jill Clayburgh

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

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

I remember seeing that movie with Nicolas Cage and whoever, where they're both alcoholics and she's a prostitute, and they're... built!
-- Jill Clayburgh

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

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

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 something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
-- Jill Clayburgh

They have great parts for people my age. I like playing the same character in different situations and periods of time.
-- Jill Clayburgh

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

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