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" 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. "
Laura Dern
Career
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True
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" 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've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "
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" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "
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" It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. "
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" 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. "
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" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "
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" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky. "
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" 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. "
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Never
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" If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline. "
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" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "
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" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "
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" Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer. "
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" 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?' "
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" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "
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" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "
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" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "
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