Jill Clayburgh Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.”