Quotes by Laura Dern

About Laura Dern:

Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress, film director, and producer. For her performance in the 1991 film Rambling Rose, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while for her performance in the 2014 film Wild, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Mask (1985), Smooth Talk (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Jurassic Park (1993), Citizen Ruth (1996), October Sky (1999), I Am Sam (2001), Inland Empire (2006) and The Master (2012).
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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.

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

I've always loved film more than theater.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern

Author Bio

  • NameLaura Dern
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, director, producer
  • BornFebruary 10, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Director; Film Producer; Voice Actor