Faye Dunaway

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 ha...”

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

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

“I'm kind of a recluse.”

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

“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.”

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

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