Annette Bening Quotes

I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that.

Annette Bening

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
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• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
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• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
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• Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Sense
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• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
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• If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
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• I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Guy
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• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Speech

• When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Be Happy

• I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Here
  • Still
  • Bear

• I grew up performing in theatre.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Up
  • Theatre
  • Performing

• There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • World
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• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. There are some things we can't control and some things that do happen to us that we can't take back, but how we deal with it afterwards is our future... I think anybody can do anything they want if they stay positive and determined.

  

  Katie Piper
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Deals

• I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • House

• Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Body
  • Fact
  • Atom

• We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Stuff
  • Orchestra
  • Arrangement

• If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Awesome

• I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that.

  

  Annette Bening