Laura Dern Quotes

#1. It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

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#2. 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.

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#3. There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

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#4. What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

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#5. 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.

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#6. When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

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#7. The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

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#11. I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

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#12. It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

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#22. I love to rescue animals ... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

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#23. I just love, I love, I love movies.

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#24. That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

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#25. 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

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#26. If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

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#27. I've always loved film more than theater.

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#28. There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

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#29. 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.

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#30. There is so much in the world to care about.

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#31. You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

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#32. You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

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#33. 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.

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#34. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

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#35. I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

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