Laura Dern Quotes
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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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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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.