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To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
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I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.
Annette Bening
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Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.
Annette Bening -
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening -
Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
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We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
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When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.
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I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.
Annette Bening
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I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.
Annette Bening -
I never felt like I had made it.
Annette Bening -
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Annette Bening -
The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
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Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.
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Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.
Annette Bening
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I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.
Annette Bening -
I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.
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My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
Annette Bening -
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
Annette Bening -
Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
Annette Bening -
If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
Annette Bening
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I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
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Glamour is really fun.
Annette Bening -
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
Annette Bening -
I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.
Annette Bening