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" My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour. "

Laura Dern

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "

Laura Dern

Always

Would

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

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" 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 was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement. "

" People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. "

" God bless nannies. "

" Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body. "

" 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. "

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

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" I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. "