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" 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. "
Laura Dern
Healthy
America
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" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "
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" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "
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" I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18. "
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" I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work. "
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" I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. "
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" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Decision-making is very scary for me. "
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Very
Me
" You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those. "
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" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "
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Always
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" I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.' "
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Washington
Wanted
" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "
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Opinions
Almost
" 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. "
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Healing
Flaws
Go
" I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. "
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Sometimes
People
" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "
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Esoteric
Interested
Mother
" Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie. "
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Work
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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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Other
" 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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Heart
Woman
Thought
" Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. "
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Hollywood
Job
Me
" 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. "
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Bold
Blessed
Me
" 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. "
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Judgment
Heroes
Bad
" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "
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Parent
Right
You
" I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television. "
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Interesting
Serious
" 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. "
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Responsibility
Her
Good
" 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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Moral
Blood
Feel
" 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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People
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" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "
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World
People
" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "
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Way
You