Laura Dern Quotes

I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.

Laura Dern

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
  • Dance

• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Love
  • Book
  • Night

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
  • Quality

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Home
  • Find
  • Vacation

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • America
  • Best

• Cersei is a character who's done unspeakable things, and yet we also know that she's a mother who's lost her children - that she's been pushed to the end of her tether.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Children
  • Done
  • She

• I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Rest
  • Justice

• I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Bold