I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLPenitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
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The food that’s never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn’t a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I’m there and bring it back with me.
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I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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It’s always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That’s one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
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I want to do movies, but I want to do something that’s good. I don’t want to make any more films until I feel that I’m ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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When you split from someone, it doesn’t have to mean that you don’t love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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I’ve got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I’ve thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, ‘What are the things I can do that won’t hurt me and will help me?’ The first answer is work.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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