Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
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?"
Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
She was often rumored to be the model for the current incarnation of the Columbia Pictures logo, even so much so as to believe it herself. Jennifer Joseph was the model for the Columbia Pictures logo.
Her first major role in a theatrical feature was in The Great Outdoors.
She received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role for American Beauty and for Being Julia. She would lose both times, coincidentally, to Hilary Swank.
She is a council member for the California Arts Council.
She and Warren Beatty met on the set of Bugsy, in which she played Virginia Hill, and the two began a secret romance.
She was formerly a board member of the small L.A. theater company "The Actors' Gang."
She was hired to play the romantic lead in the sitcom Just In Time. After the first table read, the producers fired her saying they "wanted to move the character in a new direction". She was replaced by Patricia Kalember.
She was the subject of an urban legend claiming that she had been the model for the Columbia Pictures logo. This rumor was untrue but so widespread that Bening herself told Roger Ebert that she believed it to be true.
She said that her idols are Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Liv Ullmann, and Ingrid Bergman.
She was the first choice to play the role of Carolyn Burnham in American Beauty.
She was married to J. Steven White from 1984 - 1991, when they divorced after seperating in 1986. In 1992 she married Warren Beatty, together they have four children.
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