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Annette Bening Quotes - Page 2
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I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Love Learning Me
Craft
Intoxicating
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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
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Actress
Interesting
People
Thinking
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My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Sister
Associated
Fought
Wanting
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It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Disappear
Persona
Appears
Great Actor
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My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Running
Eccentric
Illness
Scissors
Terrible
Descend
Wonderfully
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Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
Annette Bening
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Actress
Journey
Billion
People Way Your
Hamlet
To Be Or Not To Be
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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
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Actress
Film
People
Thinking
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I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Pretending
Shed
Skins
Life Feel Your
Just Be
Ok
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Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Fancy
Dressed
Great Thing
Oddly
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Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Stable
Surprising
Loves
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What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Audience
Narrative
Actor
Bring
Large
Large Part
Motivates
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Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Responsibility Children Parents
Struggling
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The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Lightning
Surprising
Tension
Action Movies
Bottle
Catch
They Say
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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
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Actress
Clarity
Real
Tricky
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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
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Actress
Show Me
Shows
Way
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A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Experience
Receptive
Tweak
Camera
Find
Place
Put
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I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Big Ideas
Combination
Junior High
Junior
Shakespeare
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By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Abortion
Pregnant
Wade
Time School High School
By The Time
Happening
Passed
Roe
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We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Achieve
Easier
Imagine
Lost
Path
Process
Figure
Helps
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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
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Actress
Home
Chaos
Children
Human Beings
Interesting
Relation
Life Love Home
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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
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Actress
Artistic
Going Away
Insecurity
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I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Surprise
Began
Myself Thinking Remember
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Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Consistent
Stable
Certain Way
Presence
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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
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Actress
Deeper
Fascinating
Loss
Painful
More Or Less
Resonates
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That's one of the most important things about acting is not just when you're speaking but when you're taking in from someone else. So I often go to the theater and I'm watching the person who's not talking. I love that.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Acting
Important
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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
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Actress
Opportunity
Falling In Love
Real
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I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Grateful
Adult
Cared
Few People
Regional
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Method
Inside
Work Time Past
In The Past
Outside
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I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Pursue
Love Work Learning
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Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Private Life
Public Life
Life Great Movies
Joys
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Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Ambivalence
Relate
Traits
Qualities
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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
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Actress
Be Kind
Reading
Thinking
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When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'
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Actress
Primal
Sibling
Formed
Unresolved
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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
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Actress
Acting
Creative
Mind
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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
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Actress
Opportunity
Mean
People
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With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Serving
Big Difference
Directing
Medium
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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
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Actress
Position
Privileged
Picture
Love Myself People
Opportunities
So Many Opportunities
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It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Consistent
Family Work Business
Journeyman
Raise
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It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Paralyzed
Life Childhood Me
Life Experiences
Move On
Traumatic
Witnessed
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Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'
Annette Bening
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Actress
Attorney
Defense
Point Of View
Acting School
Defend
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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
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Actress
Kids
Mom
Trying
Discussed
Best Sometimes Doing
Experienced
Idealize
Moms
Raise
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There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Spouse
Love Nature Family
Connection
Partner
Prism
Your Child
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I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Feel Good
Mental Health
Take Care
Be Nice
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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
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Actress
Littles
People
Want
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There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Cost
Exploration
Therapeutic
Aspects
Indulging
Investigate
No Question
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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
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Actress
History Always People
Connect
Distant
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To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Experience Great Me
Classical
Great Experience
Grown
Idealized
Strengths
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I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Book
Clinton
Interesting
Mccain
Memories
Palin
Unbelievable
Obama
Game
Brought
Campaign
Choosing
Read
Her
John
John Edwards
Sarah Palin
Relive
Sarah
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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
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Girl
Children
Mother
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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
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Actress
Brad
Fine
Interesting
Opening
Paparazzi
Restaurants
Thinking
Will Know Go
Pretty
Avoid
Brad Pitt
Madonna
Photographed
Pitt
Unless
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