Annette Bening : (9)

" I think people have a right to their point of view. " - Annette Bening

" 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.’ " - Annette Bening

" The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am. " - Annette Bening

" I don’t really have a choice. I’m getting older. " - Annette Bening

" I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, ‘OK, no more pretending.’ You get to just be who you are. " - Annette Bening

" Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes – all of that’s a great thing, but oddly, it doesn’t really have a lot to do with acting most of the time. " - Annette Bening

" I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time. " - Annette Bening

" I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it’s exciting. " - Annette Bening

" My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we’re years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share. " - Annette Bening