Faye Dunaway Quotes

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

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

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

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

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

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.

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

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

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.

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.

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

I'm kind of a recluse.

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

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.

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.

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

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'