A Quote by Faye Dunaway

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Faye Dunaway

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Faye Dunaway
American - Actress
Born: January 14, 1941

I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.

Guy Pearce

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

Diane Arbus

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Brandon Lee

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

Taj Mahal

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Nicholas Meyer

I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

Shaun Evans

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson

I've always felt that God, himself, has chosen me for his purpose, for higher callings whether it's to be an inspiration to somebody else's life, whether it's to change somebody else's life, or whether it's to be that support or light in somebody else's life.

R-Truth

It's not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you'd be somebody else, so don't change who you are.

Sonya Deville

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Robert Breault

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Nicholas Meyer

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)

Margaret Weis

More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

Keerthy Suresh

You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

Joel Osteen

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.