Annette Bening Quotes

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

Annette Bening

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• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Art

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Law
  • Husband

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Moment

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Thought

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Man

• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Wife
  • Husband

• My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Art

• Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Dark

• I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Courage
  • Scared

• I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Art
  • Husband