Faye Dunaway, in a rare interview with PEOPLE, opens up about her life, Hollywood experiences, and notable onscreen love interests like Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Steve McQueen, clarifying there were no offscreen affairs.

Despite their chemistry in Bonnie and Clyde, Dunaway and Beatty didn’t date. She explains, “It’s a bad idea. You get very confused. It’s why doctors don’t operate on their families.”

During the filming of Chinatown, Dunaway grew close to Nicholson but did not have a romantic relationship with him as he was with Anjelica Huston. Similarly, her Thomas Crown Affair costar, McQueen, whom she calls her “favorite,” was committed to Ali MacGraw.

Dunaway admits, “There were certain attractions to a couple of people – not too many, but maybe Jack and Warren.” However, she respected their existing relationships and boundaries.

About Johnny Depp, her costar in Arizona Dream, Dunaway says, “He’s just so sexy and adorable.” Reflecting on Marlon Brando in Don Juan de Marco, she recalls, “He was so alive in every moment,” despite his weight issues.

Dunaway had her real-life loves too. She had a three-year affair with Marcello Mastroianni, which ended when he refused to divorce his wife. Her first husband was Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band, followed by photographer Terry O’Neill, with whom she had a son, Liam.

At 75, Dunaway is still open to dating, saying, “I always think I would like to have a partner in life, and I would – if I could find the right person, I think.”