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Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

~Annette Bening

Topics: About Acting Being Being Famous Exploring Famous Human Human Soul Soul

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I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Being Being Busy Busy Exciting Going Having Lot Love I Love

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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

Topics: Character Child Connection Everything Family Friends Like Love Nature Nothing Own Parents Partner Powerful Prism See Serious Spouse Through Which You Your Your Child I See

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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

Topics: About Actress Around Been Began College Could Eventually Maybe Movie Myself Picture Remember Somebody Surprise Them Think Thinking Well I Remember

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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

Topics: Bad Bad Girl Baking Businesswoman Children Earth Girl Good Good Girl Good Mother Happy Her Home Horrible Knew Lie Mother Other Right Sort Stuff Used Were Who You

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I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

~Annette Bening

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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Actress Along Autobiographies Century Classical College Company Created Eva Francisco Great Her Hero Hilarious Junior Own Repertory San San Francisco She Theater Time Turn Wanted Who Wrote

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There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

~Annette Bening

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Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

~Annette Bening

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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

Topics: Able About Acting Another Another Way Being Camera Certainly Close Down Good Good Acting Hearing Hopefully Liberating Like Mask More Movie Off Putting Remember Right Say See Someone Soul Taking Terrifying Than True Truly Way You Your I Remember

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: May 29th, 1958

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