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" 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

Parents

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" I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys. "

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

" When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?' "

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

" 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. "

Laura Dern

Think

Saying

" Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. "

" 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. "

" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "

" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "

" Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies. "

" My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. "

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating. "

" I love being in my 40s. "

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

" It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do. "

" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "

" 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. "

Laura Dern

Bad

Movies

" I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. "

" 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. "

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

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

Laura Dern

Yourself

Bold

" If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun. "

" 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

" I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.' "