Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "
Laura Dern
Work
Creative
You
Related Quotes:
" 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
Light
People
Movies
" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "
Laura Dern
Hate
Way
You
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Life
Good
Face
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Life
End
Growth
" If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline. "
Laura Dern
Money
Great
Character
" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "
Laura Dern
Take
Time
Everything
" It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent. "
Laura Dern
Love
Grow
Work
" I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. "
Laura Dern
Go
Day
Jupiter
" God bless nannies. "
Laura Dern
God
Bless
God Bless
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Long
Fall
Choices
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Moral
Blood
Feel
" 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
Never
Office
Myself
" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "
Laura Dern
Things
Care
Try
" I've always loved film more than theater. "
Laura Dern
More
Film
Loved
" I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. "
Laura Dern
Human Nature
Nature
Why
" 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
Say
Someone
Work
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Know
Me
Parents
" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "
Laura Dern
Courageous
Bold
Really
" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "
Laura Dern
Esoteric
Interested
Mother
" 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
Heart
Woman
Thought
" I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18. "
Laura Dern
Natural
Then
Got
" I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with. "
Laura Dern
People
Fall
Love
" We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. "
Laura Dern
Heroes
Work
Value
" 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
You
Yourself
Chance
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Never
End
Film
" Every role is a new form of surrender. "
Laura Dern
Form
Surrender
Role
" It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that. "
Laura Dern
Healing
Flaws
Go
" I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80. "
Laura Dern
David
Will
Working
" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "
Laura Dern
More
Opportunity
Will
" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "
Laura Dern
Love
Me
Means