Laura Dern quotes:

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

  • 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.

  • I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • I just love, I love, I love movies.

  • 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

  • Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  • 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.

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

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

  • I've always loved film more than theater.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

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

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

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

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

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

  • There is so much in the world to care about.

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

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

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

  • 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

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

  • You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

  • You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

  • You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

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