Quotes by Faye Dunaway

• 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.
• 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 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.
• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
• Years are not important, my dear.
• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
• 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.
• So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
• Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
• It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
• I'm kind of a recluse.
• I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
• 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.
• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
• 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.
• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.