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All Quotes by author - Laura Dern

" All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way. "

" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "

" A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "

" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

" 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. "

" Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary. "

" David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect. "

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

" Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body. "

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

" For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow. "

" 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. "

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

" God bless nannies. "

" 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. "

" Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for. "

" Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on. "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

" Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate. "

" I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with. "

" I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.' "

" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "

" I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's. "

" I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America. "

" I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. "

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