Laura Dern quotes
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“I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.”
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“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly”
-- Laura DernSource : "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.
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“You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”
-- Laura DernSource : "Enlightened". Comedy, Drama, 2011–2013.
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“We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that”
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“It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.”
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“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.”
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“I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.”
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“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.”
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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 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.”
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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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“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time”
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“It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say”
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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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“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.”
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“If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.”
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“You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”
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“The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour”
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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?”
-- Laura DernSource : Interview with Kate Bush, Spin magazine, gaffa.org. March 1994.
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“That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love”
-- Laura DernSource : "New again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.
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“You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.”
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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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“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”
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“When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble”
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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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“It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents”
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“There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.”
-- Laura Dern
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