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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. "

Laura Dern

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" 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. "

" 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?' "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

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" Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something. "

" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent. "

" I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's. "

" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "