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If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
— Annette Bening
I like things that I feel comfortable in.
— Annette Bening
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
Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
— Annette Bening
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
— 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
I think people have a right to their point of view.
— Annette Bening
My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
— Annette Bening
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.
— Annette Bening
I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.
— Annette Bening
I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.
— Annette Bening
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
— Annette Bening
I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.
— Annette Bening
I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.
— Annette Bening
To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.
— Annette Bening
I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.
— Annette Bening
I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting.
— Annette Bening
Not only does Annette Bening have a really lovely, deep voice, but she's also a great articulator. I think I'm more of a mumbler.
— Lisa Cholodenko
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
— Annette Bening
Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.
— Annette Bening
My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me.
— Annette Bening
I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.
— Annette Bening
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
— Annette Bening
I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.
— Annette Bening
I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
— Annette Bening
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
— Annette Bening
What makes us love a character is a character that tries.
— Annette Bening
I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
— Annette Bening
My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
— Annette Bening
If anything, I want to please people too much.
— Annette Bening
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.
— Annette Bening
If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
— Annette Bening
Glamour is really fun.
— Annette Bening
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
— Annette Bening
It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
— Annette Bening
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
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
— Annette Bening
I've tried to take roles with great demands.
— Annette Bening
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
— Annette Bening
I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
— Annette Bening
I am in awe of Ruth Draper.
— Annette Bening
I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.
— Annette Bening
I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.
— Annette Bening
I never felt like I had made it.
— Annette Bening
Every person's opinion, in a way, does matter.
— Annette Bening
I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.
— Annette Bening
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.
— Annette Bening
I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.
— Annette Bening
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
— Annette Bening
The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.
— Annette Bening
Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!
— Annette Bening
I just want to be educated.
— Annette Bening
I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.
— Annette Bening
