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Faye Dunaway
American
Actress
About the author
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#People
#Old
#Rules
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,
American
Actress
#God
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,
American
Actress
#Now
#Movies
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Movies
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Daughter
#Mother
#Passion
#Destiny
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,
American
Actress
#Now
#Film
#Success
#Movies
#Hardware
#Budgets
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Right
#Now
#Style
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
Years are not important, my dear.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Years
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#People
#Femininity
#Vulnerability
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#People
#Actors
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Now
#First
It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Play
#Class
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Wrong
I'm kind of a recluse.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
Faye Dunaway,
American
Actress
#Want
#Hope
#Years
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,
American
Actress
#Career