141 Quotes by Annette Bening

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

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.

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

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

The reason, I think, is that Jean is not sympathetic. She's not a nice girl. She's not out to win people. I think that's why the movies never got made.

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

You have to have a wristband to listen to the governor? ... He represents all of us, right?

Do we need a wristband to listen to our governor? ... He represents all of us.