Annette Bening Quotes
If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.
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.
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."
The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it.
I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.
Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.
Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.
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.
We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.