Quote

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Marianne Faithfull

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
Actor
Autobiographer
Diarist
Film Actor
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
Asked
Father
Wanted
Sociologist
Sociologists
Horror

More quotes by Marianne Faithfull

Image
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?
Marianne Faithfull
Image
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I shoot my big mouth off it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
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
Image
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
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
Image
I have to watch out for being lazy.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
Marianne Faithfull
Image
All I have to do is what's right for me.
Marianne Faithfull