Faye Dunaway Quotes

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

- Faye Dunaway

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?

- Faye Dunaway

I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.

- Faye Dunaway

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

- Faye Dunaway

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

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

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.

- Faye Dunaway

I get angry when people push people around.

- Faye Dunaway

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

I always think I would like to have a partner in life, and I would - if I could find the right person, I think.

- Faye Dunaway

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

- Faye Dunaway

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

- Faye Dunaway

Years are not important, my dear.

- Faye Dunaway

I'm kind of a recluse.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

- Faye Dunaway

I was very determined. The straight-A girl. I wanted to succeed. Driven. Let's face it: very driven.

- 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.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

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

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

- Faye Dunaway

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

- Faye Dunaway

I like the Four Seasons. It's a nice hotel.

- Faye Dunaway

Once you reach a certain age, you realize that men aren't as important as you once thought they were.

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

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

- Faye Dunaway

If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

- Faye Dunaway

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

- Faye Dunaway

When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don't know how to talk about it now because it's too mindblowing. It's so unreal, and yet it's real.

- Faye Dunaway

I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'

- Faye Dunaway

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

- Faye Dunaway

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

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