American - Actress | May 29, 1958 -
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
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.
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If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
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I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
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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?'
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It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
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I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.
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To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.
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I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
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I've tried to take roles with great demands.
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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.
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My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
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