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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. "

Laura Dern

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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. "

" 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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" I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television. "

" Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. "

" 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. "

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

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" It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "

" 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. "

" David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect. "

" Jealousy is a scary thing. "

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" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "

" I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary. "

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