The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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."
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.
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?"
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.