Quotes from Faye Dunaway

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

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

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

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

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.

I get angry when people push people around.

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

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

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.