Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Faye Dunaway
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Faye Dunaway.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I'm kind of a recluse.
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
I am who I am and, you know, I've done the best I can with what I've been given.
I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.
I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
I get angry when people push people around.
I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
I always think I would like to have a partner in life, and I would - if I could find the right person, I think.
When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
I like the Four Seasons. It's a nice hotel.
Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.
It's not age that makes a life. It's what you do with it.
If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.
Years are not important, my dear.
I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
I was very determined. The straight-A girl. I wanted to succeed. Driven. Let's face it: very driven.
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.
When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don't know how to talk about it now because it's too mindblowing. It's so unreal, and yet it's real.
It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
Once you reach a certain age, you realize that men aren't as important as you once thought they were.
I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.
All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
I didn't think my face was beautiful. I guess I found a lot wrong with it.
I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.
I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.
I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'
You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.
You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
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