Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
I just go to movies, or see my son, Liam. He's 23 and he's got to find his own way, but I try to be there and give him guidance.
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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.
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
I think you always have to look for stuff that's good and there is really good stuff especially in the independent arena.
I'm kind of a recluse.
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
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.
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
The whole era when I was busy being a big movie star was terribly disconcerting. I was cared for and cosseted, and yet I was totally dependent.
There are all kinds of perceptions, some not so important; what's important is that I come out with something that's good. In order to do that, some of it depends a little bit on Hollywood's perception, but most of it just depends on the sheer dint of my own energy and creativity.
Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
Years are not important, my dear.
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
You just don't waltz in and put a movie together. You've really got to stay humble because it's like an act of God to do it.
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
Faye was the daughter of Grace, a homemaker, and John Dunaway, an Army sergeant.
Faye won a Golden Globe for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV" for "Ellis Island" in 1984.
Faye won an Emmy for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series" for Columbo: It's All in the Game in 1993 where she played Laura Staton.
Faye starred in a TV commercial for WE or Women's Entertainment in 2001.
Faye starred on stage in After the Fall, directed by Elia Kazan in 1964.
Faye starred in the play "Hogan's Goat", directed by Frederick Rolf in 1965.
Faye married Peter Wolf from August 7, 1974 until 1979 in which they divorced.
Faye's son, Liam Walker Dunaway O'Neill, was born in the summer of 1980.
Faye was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Faye's Chinese sign is the Dragon and her element Metal.
Faye's sign is the Capricorn.
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