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" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "
Laura Dern
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
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" It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.' "
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" 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.' "
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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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Time
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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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Love
Hope
Only
" 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. "
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Time
Fun
Good
" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "
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Work
Creative
You
" There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks. "
Laura Dern
Side
Man
Always
" Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. "
Laura Dern
Ugly
Movies
People
" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "
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Know
Anybody
You
" I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face. "
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Too
Seems
Little
" I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. "
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Mom
Think
Voice
" Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them. "
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Me
People
Challenge
" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "
Laura Dern
Film
Great
Make
" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "
Laura Dern
Courageous
Bold
Really
" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "
Laura Dern
Parent
Right
You
" God bless nannies. "
Laura Dern
God
Bless
God Bless
" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "
Laura Dern
You
Work
Kind
" There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. "
Laura Dern
Something
Faults
Accessible
" Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie. "
Laura Dern
Mars
Work
Great
" 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
" I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. "
Laura Dern
Ambiguous
People
Love
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Moment
Mind
Homework
" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "
Laura Dern
Way
World
People
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Working
Summer
Mom
" 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
" I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60. "
Laura Dern
Face
I Can
Mess
" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "
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Hip-Hop
Son
Me
" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "
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Saturday
Play
Live