I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books... →
Billy Al Bengston
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty -... →
Roberto Benigni
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as... →
Annette Bening
I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It... →
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... →
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of... →
I've tried to take roles with great demands.
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what... →
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... →