I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLSometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
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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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For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn’t. I don’t think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
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When you are 18, 19, 20, you’re used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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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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I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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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’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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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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