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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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" 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

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Laura Dern

Sometimes

People

" I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately. "

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

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

" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. "

" 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

" I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good. "

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

Laura Dern

Day

Jupiter

" I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes. "

" 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?' "

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

" Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. "

" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" 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. "

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

" I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing. "

Laura Dern

Personality

Got

" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "

" I resent ever being stereotyped. "