Laura Dern Quotes
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You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.
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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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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.
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I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.
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Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.
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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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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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There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
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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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When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
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Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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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.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
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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 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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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.