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19 quotes by Jill Clayburgh

Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She was a two-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actress Award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Clayburgh made her Broadway debut in 1968 and went on to star in the original Broadway productions of the musicals The Rothschilds (1970) and Pippin (1972) In 1975, she starred in the TV movie Hustling, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. Her role...
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What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

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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... →

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

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There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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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.

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

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

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

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

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