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.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLIf I let myself sink into depression, I won’t be able to get out. And then I’ll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it’s not lived drawing on a full level. I’m relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
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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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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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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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music – I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter – that I got from my dad.
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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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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
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I’d love to make more money in America, that’s the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It’s a shame. I’m trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I’ll be much happier.
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I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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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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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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