I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
More Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
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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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All I can say is I’ve been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, ‘You’re very good.’
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I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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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’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
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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 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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All I have to do is what’s right for me.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
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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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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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Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
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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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