Quotes by Annette Bening

Annette Bening

All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was running his theater. And Stanislavski really was the first inventor of modern acting and then everything that came out of the method and Stella Adler and the great teachers really came out of him.

Running

Teacher

Writing

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.”

Show Me

Shows

Way

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn’t just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.

Acting

Creative

Mind

Don’t wait to have a baby! Do it now!

Baby

Waiting

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.

Littles

People

Want

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

Being Nice

Looking Forward

Nice

I fall in love with all the people I’m working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that’s actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.

Falling In Love

Opportunity

Real

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.

Deeper

Loss

Painful

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.

Film

People

Thinking

I think where I’ve instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in public attention, I have a certain reserve. But when I’m working I feel like I’m very open. At least I like to believe that I feel like nothing is held back when I’m in front of a camera. That’s my job.

Believe

Jobs

Thinking

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Acting

Art

Audience

Baby

Being Nice

Believe

Book

Certain

Chance

Character

Children

Clarity

Class

Crazy

Creative

Creativity

Deeper

Degrees

Easy

Evil

Falling In Love

Film

Girl

Going Away

Home

Important

Insecurity

Interesting

Jobs

Let It Go

Littles

Long

Looking Forward

Loss

Mean

Mind

Mistake

Moments

Mother

Needs

Nice

Oklahoma

Opportunity

Painful

People

Reading

Real

Reason

Running

School

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Quotes by Annette Bening

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.”

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn’t just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.

Don’t wait to have a baby! Do it now!

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

I fall in love with all the people I’m working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that’s actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.

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 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.

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