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Annette Bening

American Actress

Born: May 29, 1958

Great Love Me People Think You

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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. Annette Bening

Family Old Almost Almost All Very Grandfather Who Lucky Lived

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is. Annette Bening

Me Speak Husband Believe Rule Never Children

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic. Annette Bening

Best You Think Cathartic Your Actor

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. Annette Bening

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. Annette Bening

Good Home You Happy Lie Mother Girl Other Earth Good Mother Bad Bad Girl Horrible Knew Stuff Baking Sort Were Children Used Who Businesswoman Her Right Good Girl

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am. Annette Bening

Time Fiber Every Spend Kids Am Informs Who

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. Annette Bening

Life Love Home Wonderful My Life Relation Chaos Knew Always Human Just Children Wanted Human Beings Interesting Acting Beings Lucky

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second. Annette Bening

Mother Wife First Am Act Second

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning. Annette Bening

Work Love Learning Way See Able Something Pursue Feel Children Want Them Themselves Really Lucky Growing Lives

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. Annette Bening

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Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits. Annette Bening

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging. Annette Bening

Mother Somebody Troubled Aging

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. Annette Bening

Art Husband He Putting Feet Them Ceremonies Lap Awards Rub

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. Annette Bening

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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

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I think we as celebrities have a lot more control. Annette Bening

Control Think More Lot Celebrities

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

Honey Way Oklahoma Am Oh Who

I like things that I feel comfortable in. Annette Bening

Feel Like Comfortable Things

If anything, I want to please people too much. Annette Bening

People Too Much Too Please Want Anything Much

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