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Was among the first actresses to earn a seven-figure fee for a single performance when she was paid $1.65 million to do Inchon (1981). The movie turned out to be a huge flop and for many years held the record as being the largest financial failure in cinema history.

Nick Nolte revealed in his 2018 memoir that he and Bisset had an affair while making द डीप (1977). She also reportedly had brief romances with Terence Stamp, Chevy Chase, Ryan O'Neal, François Truffaut, Jon Peters, Gigi Rizzi, Kirk Kerkorian, Sean Ferrer and Frank Howson. One claim she has made a point of addressing is that of an affair with Steve McQueen, and is annoyed that this rumor still exists after she's repeatedly denied it.

Considers her most fulfilling role to be Julie in François Truffaut's La nuit américaine (1973).

Godmother of Angelina Jolie.

Was taken aback when Marcheline Bertrand asked her to be Angelina Jolie's godmother, because she hardly knew Marcheline at the time. (They'd only just met as Bertrand's then-husband Jon Voight was co-starring with Bisset in Der Richter und sein Henker (1975).) Their friendship ended up lasting more than 30 years.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

I'm fascinated by a man with a twinkle in his eye.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

After filming द डीप (1977), all they talked about was my boobs for the next four years. God, if I was going to do a picture like that, I'd have done it a lot sexier. That looked like two fried eggs on a platter.

The picture is called Class (1983) but the ad campaign is anything but. They've put my head onto another body and given me enormous bosoms. All the guys are going to be disappointed.