Faye Dunaway famous quotes

05-13-2025

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Soul #Pairs #Anticipation
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'
-- Faye Dunaway

#Thinking #Glasses #Remember
I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Thinking #Energy #Actors
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Sometimes #Vulnerable #Desperate
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Mean #People
Years are not important, my dear.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Years #Important #Dear God
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Differences #Effort #Records
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Tired #Athlete
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Relationship #Beach #Partners
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Responsibility #Hands #Kind
I'm kind of a recluse.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Kind #Recluse
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
-- Faye Dunaway

#Mean #People #Actors
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Directors #Firsts
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Years #Want #Stills
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Thinking #Careers #Roles
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Class #Play #Scripts
It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Cutting #Interesting #Grows
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Stars #War #Independent
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Thinking #Taught #Feds
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Style #Teeth #Done
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Girl #Track #Southern
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.
-- Faye Dunaway

#Daughter #Mother #Passion

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