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Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
Annette Bening
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Annette Bening
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 29
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Topeka
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Annette Carol Bening
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Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.
Annette Bening
Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.
Annette Bening
If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
Annette Bening
I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A lot of fiction comes out right now. So, I like reading the memoir. I love memoir, the biography, auto bio.
Annette Bening
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
Annette Bening
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
Annette Bening
Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: Isn't that that Bening woman?
Annette Bening
I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.
Annette Bening
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.
Annette Bening
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
Annette Bening
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Annette Bening
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
Annette Bening
The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it.
Annette Bening
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
Annette Bening
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Annette Bening
I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.
Annette Bening
As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.
Annette Bening
And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.
Annette Bening
Movies are details. Movies are billions of details that come into a certain moment. So with all the years and months and weeks and days and minutes of preparation, then finally you're shooting and it all comes down to these moments when you're shooting, which is sort of insane when you think about it. The details make a difference.
Annette Bening
In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.
Annette Bening
