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" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "
Laura Dern
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" 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. "
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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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" I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky. "
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" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "
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" There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place. "
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" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "
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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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" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "
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" I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me. "
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" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "
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" 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. "
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