Faye Dunaway

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

I always think I would like to have a partner in life, and I would - if I could find the right person, I think.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.