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Annette Bening

American Actress

Born: May 29, 1958

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

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There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything. Annette Bening

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I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older. Annette Bening

Getting Older Older Getting Really Choice

I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting. Annette Bening

Love Being Busy Busy Having Exciting Lot Going Being

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it. Annette Bening

You Somebody Tell Find Write Want Story

I just want to be educated. Annette Bening

Educated Just Want

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw. Annette Bening

Made Saw Some Nobody Loved Movies Really

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings. Annette Bening

Writing Sides Human Human Beings Interested Beings

I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting. Annette Bening

Reality Our Find Emotional Interesting Lives

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

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A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there. Annette Bening

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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time. Annette Bening

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I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book. Annette Bening

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

Remember Conviction Points Attention Still Salesmanship Close Five Interest Desire

I never felt like I had made it. Annette Bening

Made Never Had Like Felt

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery. Annette Bening

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There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in. Annette Bening

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When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.' Annette Bening

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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. Annette Bening

Great Character You Hopefully About Something Most Because Camera Surprising Stable Want Happen Loves Even Film

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is. Annette Bening

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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. Annette Bening

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Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?' Annette Bening

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I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked. Annette Bening

You Age Few Think Always Shocked Us Moments

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only. Annette Bening

Me Young Think Only Being Acting Thing

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell. Annette Bening

Love You Luxury Secrets Tell Like Does Camera Much

I've tried to take roles with great demands. Annette Bening

Great Tried Take Demands Roles

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