Laura Dern Quotes
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.
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There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.
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Jealousy is a scary thing.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to amazing change in this country.
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I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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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 was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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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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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.