Jill Clayburgh famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Nice #Yoga #Long
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Sitting #Rooms #Theater
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Personality #Want #Actresses
I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Growing Up #Kids #Growing
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 #Treasure #Bugs
There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Beautiful #Squash #Arms
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 #Glasses
I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Running #People #Kind
Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Nice #Agriculture #Would Be
Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.
-- Jill Clayburgh

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

#Fitness #Swim #Miles
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Character #Arms #Muscles
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
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
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Echoes #People #Film

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