Laura Dern Quotes
"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Love)
"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
(Related: Women, Love, Hope, Artists, Want)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Actor, Responsibility, Understanding)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Character, Chance, Play)
"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Movies, People, Children, Desperation, Light, Longing, Relationships)
"I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people."
- Laura Dern
(Related: People, Commitment, Difference)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Hollywood, Office)
"What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?"
- Laura Dern
(Related: Work, Artist)
"We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Life, Work, Heroes, Value)
"Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Movies, Business, People, Ugly)
"There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Faults, Heroes)
"The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Movies)
"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Day)
"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Work, Mother, Bank account, Day, First)
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Time, Washington)
"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."
- Laura Dern
(Related: People, Act, Difference, Hollywood, Job, Party, Want)
"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."
- Laura Dern
(Related: People, Act, Fun)
"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Work, Desire, Parents)
"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."
- Laura Dern
(Related: World)
"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Film, Style)
"I've always loved film more than theater."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Film, Theater)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: People, Projects)
"I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them."
- Laura Dern
"I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Women, Mother, Work)
"There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Man, Woman)
"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Nature, Control, Deep, Man, Trouble)
"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Women, Thought, People, Heart, Woman)