Best 67 quotes of Marianne Faithfull on MyQuotes

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

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

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.

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

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.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press.

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.

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.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

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.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

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.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

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

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

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.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

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.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

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.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!