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
Do we need a wristband to listen to our governor? ... He represents all of us.
He seemed to know so much more than it would be appropriate for a first-time (film) director to know. I still don't understand how he knows what he knows.
They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great reader he was, that he would read up on where they were going. It's completely fascinating to talk to her. I was ? and she said that when they were dancing, he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.
I just sort of took her lead. She was guiding the conversation. She's an old lady now, 82 or so, and she was sort of surprised that we were making the story. She said nice things about him. She said he was a great traveler. ... And she said he was a great dancer, that he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.
He finds me and wants to have a baby with me, and there are problems, ... It wouldn't be a movie if there weren't dramatic problems, as my daughter tells me, my 8-year-old.
I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.
Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
You have to have a wristband to listen to the governor? ... He represents all of us, right?
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.