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The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it.
Annette Bening
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Annette Bening
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 29
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Topeka
Kansas
Annette Carol Bening
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I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.
Annette Bening
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
Annette Bening
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of how do we find our authentic selves? And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
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
Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.
Annette Bening
You end up loving every character that you play but a lot of the people I've played, I should just say for myself, I played, I wouldn't necessarily want to continue playing them. I've done them. It's like going on a trip. You go, you're amazed, you're glad you're there but you're glad to get home. And that's how I feel most of the time.
Annette Bening
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
Annette Bening
I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.
Annette Bening
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
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
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
Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!
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
All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was running his theater. And Stanislavski really was the first inventor of modern acting and then everything that came out of the method and Stella Adler and the great teachers really came out of him.
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
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 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 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
