Daily Inspiration Quote by Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway’s line reads like a modest status update, but it’s really a compact act of self-positioning. She’s not just “writing a script”; she’s working on a “feature script” based on Master Class, and she makes sure the play arrives with its trophies attached. That “won a lot of Tonys” isn’t trivia, it’s cultural insurance: a shorthand for legitimacy in an industry that treats awards the way finance treats credit ratings.

The subtext is a veteran performer quietly insisting on her range and relevance. Dunaway is historically framed as an icon of a particular New Hollywood glamour and volatility; this sentence nudges the story toward craft, discipline, and authorship. “Working on” does double duty. It signals effort (I’m still in the arena) and becomes a protective blur (development is real work, even if nothing’s greenlit yet). In Hollywood, announcing the process can be as strategic as announcing the product.

Choosing McNally’s Master Class also matters. The play is about Maria Callas teaching, judging, mythologizing, and defending what “greatness” costs. That’s a mirror Dunaway can plausibly hold up without saying so outright. The material flatters her strengths: intensity, control, the ability to project authority with a hint of danger. The quote’s plainness is the tell. By avoiding grand claims and letting institutional markers (Tonys, McNally, “feature”) do the talking, she makes ambition sound like inevitability.