List of Annette Bening Quotes

I Always Wonder About People's History And Their Lives, Especially People That Are A Little Bit More Distant, Who Obviously Have Had Some Kind Of A Thing And You Know There's Some Reason Why They're Not Able To Connect. It's Not Because They Don't Want To. They Don't Have The Ability.

In A Film, If You Can Capture What's Going On Underneath, You Can Begin To Make A Connection Between The Character And The People Watching It.

I Think What's Interesting About The Whole Paparazzi Thing Is That Unless You're Brad Pitt Or Madonna, You Can Pretty Much Avoid It. You Know When You're Going To An Opening That You Will Be Photographed, So That's Fine. And You Know The Restaurants That Have Paparazzi, So You Don't Go To Them.

It Used To Be The One Or The Other, Right? You Were The 'bad Girl' Or The 'good Girl' Or The 'bad Mother' Or The 'good Mother,' 'the Horrible Businesswoman Who Eschewed Her Children' Or 'the Earth Mother Who Was Happy To Be At Home Baking Pies,' All Of That Stuff That We Sort Of Knew Was A Lie.

And If There's Anything Movies Can Do In A Way That I Just Love, And I Love As An Audience Is, "show Me Something I Don't Know About. Show Me Something I Haven't Seen."

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.

I Knew I Wanted Children In My Life. The Acting Was Always In Relation To It. Life At Home Is Chaos. They're Wonderful. They're Such Interesting Human Beings. I Just Love It. I'm Lucky.

I Think Where I've Instinctively Found Myself Is That I Am Somewhat Guarded In My Public Life. Being Interviewed Or Being Photographed Or Just In Public Attention, I Have A Certain Reserve. But When I'm Working I Feel Like I'm Very Open. At Least I Like To Believe That I Feel Like Nothing Is Held Back When I'm In Front Of A Camera. That's My Job.

Don't Wait To Have A Baby! Do It Now!

Modern Acting Is Method Acting, Most Of It. And There Are Sort Of Different Schools, So I Guess I'm Not Really From One School Or Another. I Had A Number Of Different Teachers But They Were All Kind Of Drawing From The Same Pool, Which Is - What Do You Want? What Are You Doing To Get What You Want? And, What Is In The Way? These Are Basic Acting Questions. Knowing The Answers To Those Questions. So You're Talking About Objectives And Actions And Obstacles. That's A Sort Of Shorthand That Gives You A Language.

One Of The Things On A Very Practical Level As An Actor Or Actress Is That When You Do A Play, You Do The Entire Story Every Time You Do It. You Have Eight Shows A Week. You Have A Rehearsal Process Of Four To Five To Six Weeks. And Then Once You're In Performance, Everybody Else Goes Away And You're There With Your Fellow Actors And The Audience And The Material And Your Life Becomes About That. And You Go Through The Story From The Beginning To The End Every Time You Do It And Depending On How Long You Do It, That's Where The Craft Comes In.

I Had Never Met An Actress Or An Actor When I Thought That I Might Like To Be One. I Had Never Been Around People In Show Business Or From The Theater Or From Movies Or Anything. And I Say That As An Encouragement, I Don't Know Some People Who Want To Be Doing What I'm Doing Or Be Involved In Film. You Don't Have To Be From It To Get Interested And Get Involved. I Certainly Wasn't.