Faye Dunaway Quotes

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?

Life is too short to just go through the motions.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.

I believe you only have one chance on this earth, and I'm just trying to live my life and do what makes me happy.