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Annette Bening Quotes

American - Actress | May 29, 1958 -

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

Soul Famous Acting Movies Exploring

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.

Family Nature Love Character Parents

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.

Women Myself Writing Deep Think Say

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

Remember Attention Desire Conviction

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

Love Busy Being Going Exciting Lot

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

I Am Looking Forward Looking Forward

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.

Good Mother Home Girl Children Lie

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

People You Minds First Open Get

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.

Great Time Hero College She Turn

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?'

Love Myself Woman People Saying

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

Women Know Yes Played Really

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Myself College Think Thinking Well

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