Laura Dern Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

There is so much in the world to care about.

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.

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

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 interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

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

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 just love, I love, I love movies.

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.

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

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.

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

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

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

People have forever been interested in twins.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

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 grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

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.

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

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

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