Annette Bening (Actor)

"I knew all about Warren’s reputation as a ladies’ man," says Bening. "But that was never an issue. I did not start a relationship with him on the basis that it was going to end quickly. It started because I fell in love with him." - Bening to SAGA Magazine, March 2004

"It's the essence of stardom. Bening is good at creating that little bit of mystery which keeps people leaning in." - critic Richard Schickel quoted in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Feb. 21, 1999

"She's one of my favorite kind of actors, who really understands that the role she is playing is not her. She's not afraid to go places that might be a little crazy or a little off. I think she enjoys playing women who are on the edge, because she is so not like that in her real life." - Alan Ball, director of "American Beauty" to Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 22, 2004

About her nomination for an Oscar and winner Whoopi Goldberg taking all the unsuccessful nominees to dinner: "We got together before the ceremony and we said, 'Let's get together next week and whoever wins, pays.' I was working on 'Bugsy' at the time and I got a big bouquet of flowers in my trailer from Whoopi. She did it all so well. The card said, 'Meet at such-and-such restaurant.' Whoopi's great. So Mary McDonnell, who had done 'Dances with Wolves,' and Diane Ladd, who was in 'Rambling Rose,' and I had dinner with her. She gave us little chocolate Oscars and gardenias. So classy." - Bening to Movieline Magazine, December 1994