Laura Dern Quotes
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You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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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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Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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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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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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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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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.