141 Quotes by Annette Bening

Don’t wait to have a baby! Do it now!

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 always wonder about people’s history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there’s some reason why they’re not able to connect. It’s not because they don’t want to. They don’t have the ability.

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.

If you’re an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

In a film, if you can capture what’s going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.

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.

I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

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.'