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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?' "

Laura Dern

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" 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. "

" I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys. "

" 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. "

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" What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? "

" 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. "

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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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" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

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

" Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on. "

" 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. "

" I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. "

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

" 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. "

" God bless nannies. "

" I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.' "

" Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it. "

" I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. "