Faye Dunaway

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

It's not age that makes a life. It's what you do with 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 half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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