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" I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. "

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" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

" 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. "

" Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie. "

" It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. "

" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done. "

" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

" I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. "

" We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.' "

" 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. "

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

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "

" Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "