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 FAITHFULLWhen 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.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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 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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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
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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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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 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 never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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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 do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
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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’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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