Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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Sometimes 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.
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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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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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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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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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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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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 equipment you’ve got really dictates what you’re going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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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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