Laura Dern Quotes
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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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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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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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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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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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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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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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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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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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've always loved film more than theater.
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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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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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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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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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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.