"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."

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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high."

J. William Fulbright, American Politician

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"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"

Anne Frank, German Writer

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"He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."

Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author

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"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."

Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist

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Explore more quotes by Annette Bening

"The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment."

Movies

"I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise."

College

"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."

Home

"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""

Love

"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."

Time

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

Being

"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."

Woman

"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"

Actor

"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."

Art

"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.""

Love