Faye Dunaway

I am furious that they think I'm too old to play the love interest of guys like Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. Why should I play sisters and mothers while guys like Jack and Clint, who are older than me, have on-screen lovers half their age?

Dick Van Dyke is one of the sweetest and funniest men in the world.

Though I loved making The Wicked Lady (1983), in the end it just didn't have the juice it needed to be a hit. It seemed to never quite decide whether to be a farce or a drama, and so it failed by being neither.

I give myself away all the time--to the men in my life, to the people, to the agents, to the producers, so that I have nothing left.

I now turn down all roles that have me as a villainous woman. I am trying to soften things.

Work often becomes a substitute for living. But I think the most successful artists, and the happiest people, find a fullness in both areas.

I'm very much a loner. I always think I would like to have a partner in life, and I would - if I could find the right person, I think.

I wish to this day it had worked out.

I always wanted to succeed, to do the best that I could because it puts you in a position of freedom, you see. Then you can choose the road you will take, the way you will live and work.

Perhaps other people enjoy the limelight more than I do. I prefer to keep separate the public Faye Dunaway and the private Faye Dunaway.

People will say whatever they say and I have no power over it.

I never liked parties, never felt comfortable. I was a little girl from the South and people were terribly judgmental. Oh, I had a hard time. I never felt good enough. I had large insecurities.