Faye Dunaway Quotes

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

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

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

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• Years are not important, my dear.

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

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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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Faye Dunaway (19)

Birth:	14th January, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, USA. She is an American actress. She graduated from the Boston University with a degree in theatre. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, she has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1976 film Network. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Her role in several films include: The Happening, Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, The Towering Inferno, Three Days of the Condor, Mommie Dearest, Eyes of Laura Mars, Barfly, and Arizona Dream.

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