Quotes By Laura Dern

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 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.

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.

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

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

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

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

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

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.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

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.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

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.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

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 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.

I've always loved film more than theater.

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.

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.