Faye Dunaway Quotes

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Faye Dunaway

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 14, 1941

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.

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Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

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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.

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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

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Years are not important, my dear.

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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

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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.

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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

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I'm kind of a recluse.

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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

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