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I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.
Annette Bening
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Annette Bening
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 29
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Annette Carol Bening
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Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.
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
We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.
Annette Bening
I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.
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
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
I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in public attention, I have a certain reserve. But when I'm working I feel like I'm very open. At least I like to believe that I feel like nothing is held back when I'm in front of a camera. That's my job.
Annette Bening
I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
Annette Bening
Movie is a near art form. It's showbiz and people want to make money. And generally people are financing things because they think it will make money whether it's a cable news show, a cable show, or a feature film, or whatever it is. So that's the part of it that drives it, I think, is really the dollar.
Annette Bening
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
Annette Bening
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
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
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
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
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
Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.
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
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
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 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
