Faye Dunaway Quotes

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

We've all said and done things we... wish we'd done differently.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

It's hard listening to myself.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

I did a lot of things I regret.