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Laura Dern
American
Actress
About the author
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Love
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Want
#Love
#Hope
#Artists
#Women
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Responsibility
#Understanding
#Actor
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Character
#Chance
#Play
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Relationships
#People
#Children
#Light
#Movies
#Longing
#Desperation
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#People
#Commitment
#Difference
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Office
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Work
#Artist
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Life
#Work
#Value
#Heroes
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#People
#Movies
#Ugly
#Business
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Heroes
#Faults
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Movies
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Day
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Work
#Day
#First
#Mother
#Bank account
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Time
#Washington
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Want
#People
#Hollywood
#Act
#Job
#Difference
#Party
It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#People
#Fun
#Act
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Work
#Parents
#Desire
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#World
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Film
#Style
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Film
#Theater
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#People
#Projects
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Work
#Mother
#Women
There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Man
#Woman
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#Trouble
#Man
#Deep
#Control
#Nature
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Laura Dern,
American
Actress
#People
#Heart
#Thought
#Woman
#Women