Annette Bening Quotes
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.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.
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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.
