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" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "
Laura Dern
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" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "
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" I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes. "
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" I resent ever being stereotyped. "
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" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "
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" Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies. "
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" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "
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" My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour. "
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" When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. "
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" What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break. "
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" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "
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" I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood. "
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" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "
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" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "
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" My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. "
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" 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. "
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" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "
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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 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. "
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" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "
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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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" 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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