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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. "
Laura Dern
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" 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. "
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Look
" It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. "
Laura Dern
Parents
Mine
Desire
" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "
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Will
" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "
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Mask
Talk
Blue
" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "
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Starting
Kid
" 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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Great
" Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary. "
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" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "
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Live
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Thought
Tea
Realize
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Father
Meet
Me
" To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. "
Laura Dern
Complicated
True
Journey
" 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. "
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Parents
" 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
" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "
Laura Dern
Feeling
American
Take
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Time
Fun
Good
" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "
Laura Dern
Film
Great
Make
" I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. "
Laura Dern
Mom
Think
Voice
" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "
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You
Watch
Must
" Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. "
Laura Dern
Ugly
Movies
People
" I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young. "
Laura Dern
Love
Character
Look
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Love
Hope
Only
" 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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Own
Beautiful
I Wish
" 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. "
Laura Dern
Home
Family
Create
" I've always loved film more than theater. "
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More
Film
Loved
" 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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Movies
Interesting
Serious
" 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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Never
End
Film
" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "
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Way
World
People
" Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body. "
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Body
Weird
Try
" When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves. "
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Play
Someone
Opinion
" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "
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Person
Movies
Him