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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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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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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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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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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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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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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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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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