Laura Dern Quotes

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern

Heroes, Faults, Accessible

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

Love, Great, Nose

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

Love, Women, Hope

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

Good, Start, Her

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

Movies, Children, Dark

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

Made, Wanted, 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

Big, Star, Office

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern

Wanted, Plan, Gave

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

Work, Women, Mother

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
Laura Dern

Interested, Flawed, Raised

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

Enough, Sometimes, Lucky

I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern

Loved, Film, Theater

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern

Great, Film, Movie

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern

Strange, David, Lynch

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern

Work, Parents, Desire

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

Fun, Act, Bimbo

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

Job, Why, Between

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.
Laura Dern

Time, Greatest, Goes

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

Work, Mother, Made

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Laura Dern

Life, Love, Good

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Laura Dern

Movies, Human, Courageous

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
Laura Dern

Woman, Side, Likes

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Laura Dern

Business, Movies, Ugly

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern

Life, Work, Face

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

Work, Someone, Artist

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 1, 1967

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