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" I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress. "

Laura Dern

Fashion

You

Man

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" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "

" I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18. "

" 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. "

" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "

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

" 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

" 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.' "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

" Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate. "

" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "

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

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

" I've always loved film more than theater. "

Laura Dern

Film

Loved

" I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes. "

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

" I resent ever being stereotyped. "

" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "

" I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave. "

" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "

" I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. "

" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "

" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "

Laura Dern

Love

Means

" 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. "

Laura Dern

People

Challenge

" Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80. "