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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
Laura Dern
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
Laura Dern
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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Jealousy is a scary thing.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
Laura Dern
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I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
Laura Dern
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.
Laura Dern
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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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.'
Laura Dern
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
Laura Dern
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
