Latest Marianne Faithfull Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Habit, Commit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Heart, Trying, Shame

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'd really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don't. It's hard to get them to see me as a musician, they just see me as a hanger-on to the Stones, which is not what I am at all. It's a good idea, and if something like that would turn up I could do a whole television show. I've thought about playing a landlady, sort of a mad '60s lady, this absolutely insane character. I would love it. It's a great idea.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Real, Character, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 Faithfull

  Believe, I Believe, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Bad Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Beautiful, Beautiful Life, Show Business

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mean, Romance, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Men, Rich, Groovy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Nice, Butterfly, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.

  Marianne Faithfull

  School, Important, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a tame actress. I get tired now that I'm entertaining day and night professionally. I think the only reason for going to a party is to pick up a good lay. When you've got a permanent boyfriend it's rather spoilt. Because the fun of a party is to flirt with everyone. I like flirting.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Fun, Party, Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Singing, Remember, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Thinking, Mind, State Of Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Air, Majesty, Compression

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.