Laura Dern Quotes
I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.
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I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.
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It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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Television and web are merging.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
