Annette Bening Quotes

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• Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Fame

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Hearing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

  Annette Bening

  Nice, Being Nice, Looking Forward

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

  Annette Bening

  Stories, Want, Reason

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• I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

  Annette Bening

  Desire, Attention, Remember

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

  Annette Bening

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"

  Annette Bening

  Mean, Opportunity, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

  Annette Bening

  Insecurity, Going Away, Artistic

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

  Annette Bening

  Loss, Painful, Deeper

  "Biography / Personal Quotes".

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• I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

  Annette Bening

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

  Annette Bening

  Mistake, Evil, Degrees

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You have to learn to deal with your own, for want of a better word, insecurities, fears. They don't go away. And that's normal. It's human. You don't ever really want to lose that. What you want to do is learn to manage it and to work with yourself. But there's a part of you that has anticipation and fear. And so the important thing to know is that there's nothing wrong with that and that that's normal. You have to learn how to deal with it, certainly, but it doesn't keep you from doing it. And that doesn't go away ever.

  Annette Bening

  Insecurity, Important, Going Away

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

  Annette Bening

  Who I Am, Class, Oklahoma

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• I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It just doesn't happen. And that's true of any creative endeavor. For me, it's just a lifelong interest. I'm very much interested in the craft. I started by doing plays and it took me a long time to feel comfortable doing movies, working with cameras. I felt like I was a theater actress pretending that I was a movie actress for quite a while. Now, I just love the process of working with cameras and being on a set and trying to put a film together.

  Annette Bening

  Long, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.

  Annette Bening

  Falling In Love, Real, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that there's a question you have - "Does it really make sense?" Or, "Is that plausible? Is it implausible? Is it set up?" Or whatever. Go at it. Don't let it go. If there's a question in your mind, you're probably right. You probably do need to work on it and think about it more.

  Annette Bening

  Thinking, Mind, Let It Go

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• That's one of the most important things about acting is not just when you're speaking but when you're taking in from someone else. So I often go to the theater and I'm watching the person who's not talking. I love that.

  Annette Bening

  Important, Acting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.

  Annette Bening

  Country, Blessing, Racism

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You end up loving every character that you play but a lot of the people I've played, I should just say for myself, I played, I wouldn't necessarily want to continue playing them. I've done them. It's like going on a trip. You go, you're amazed, you're glad you're there but you're glad to get home. And that's how I feel most of the time.

  Annette Bening

  Home, Character, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes people don't rehearse at all, but you might have had a chance to rehearse for a few days, or even more than that. Then in the moment when the camera's running is the only time it matters. So whatever you've discussed or thought about or discussed with the director, the other actors, hopefully there's a part of the experience that you've left open so that only in that moment the camera catches it. That's of course the hardest thing to do because everything is planned and you have thought about it in advance.

  Annette Bening

  Running, People, Chance

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

  Annette Bening

  Real, Clarity, Tricky

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get the same effect. Or if you have too many close ups, then when you have a big moment and you want a close-up in order to make a point, it doesn't mean anything because you've already been doing close-ups. It's like writing in all capitals. Then after a while that doesn't mean anything. So, just because you can do something with a camera doesn't mean you should.

  Annette Bening

  Writing, Mean, Moments

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Most of the people that I've worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And because it's a collaborative medium, you're not by yourself in a room tearing your hair out, you're in a room with a bunch of people. And we're all tearing our hairs out, or trying to get something right, or caring deeply about something. But that's fun.

  Annette Bening

  Fun, Caring, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

  Annette Bening

  Needs, Certain, Stability

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a lot of different ways of going about teaching acting and ultimately you have to just kind of create your own. You have to be the author of your own acting school in a way. I mean you can take from this and this and you can watch people and you can watch performances on the stage. You can watch movies. But ultimately you have to figure it out for yourself.

  Annette Bening

  Teaching, School, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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