Annette Bening Quotes
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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've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
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I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
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Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I never felt like I had made it.
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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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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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Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
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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.
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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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I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
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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.
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Every person's opinion, in a way, does matter.
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Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
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Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
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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.
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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.