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Annette Bening

"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."

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"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."

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Donna Grant

"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."

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Donna Grant

"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

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Donna Grant

"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"

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Donna Grant

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

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Donna Grant

"Kids today don't watch a black and white movie."

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Donna Grant

"Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else."

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Donna Grant

"If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing."

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Donna Grant

"There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play."

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Donna Grant

"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."

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Donna Grant

"I feel happy to terrify kids."

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

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Annette Bening
"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."

Kids

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Annette Bening
"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."

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Annette Bening
"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

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

Woman

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Annette Bening
"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."

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Annette Bening
"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

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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

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

Being

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Annette Bening
"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."

Soul

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