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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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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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I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

~Annette Bening

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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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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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If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

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I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

~Annette Bening

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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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It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

~Annette Bening

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I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

~Annette Bening

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: May 29th, 1958

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