Annette Bening
Annette Bening
Annette Carol Beningis an American actress. She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theatre. She was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee; for the films The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Juliaand The Kids Are All Right. In 2006, she received a star...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 May 1958
CityTopeka, KS
CountryUnited States of America
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.
I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.
You have to have a wristband to listen to the governor? ... He represents all of us, right?
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
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
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.
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.
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.
And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!