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Laura Dern
American
Actress
Born:
Feb 10
,
1967
Actor
Love
Me
People
Work
You
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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.
Laura Dern
Work
Day
Me
Mother
Made
First
Extra
Kind
Opened
She
Account
Bank
Bank Account
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
Life
Work
Heroes
Value
Face
Our
Out
Face Value
Archetypes
Like
Work Out
I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
Laura Dern
Seen
Too
Seems
Crude
Where
Little
Movies
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
Laura Dern
Great
You
Comedy
Looking
Enticing
Adorable
Stuck
Part
Get
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Loved
Then
Actor
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.
Laura Dern
Work
Women
Mother
Face
Fall
Those
Anne
Said
Get
Going
Turn
Ask
Actress
Watched
Raised
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
Laura Dern
Protagonists
Interested
Them
Flawed
Raised
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
Good
You
Responsibility
Understanding
Films
Press
About
Had
Knew
Audition
Go
Hire
His
Maybe
Where
Actor
Her
Start
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.
Laura Dern
People
Desperation
Dark
Light
Longing
Other
Relationships
Intimate
About
Struggling
Like
Children
Stories
Movies
Each
Things
Raise
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
Myself
Commitment
People
Made
Films
Make
Make A Difference
Move
Difference
Wanted
Actress
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern
Day
Me
Gave
David
David Lynch
Day One
Ticket
Go
Jupiter
Wanted
Plan
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern
More
Always
Than
Loved
Theater
Film
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern
Great
Style
Would
Would-Be
Had
Make
Movie
Film
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern
Strange
World
Say
Would
David
David Lynch
Strange World
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern
Work
Parents
Mine
Always
Been
Desire
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
Me
People
Job
Seen
Party
Part
Between
Stuff
Understood
Getting
Difference
Want
Which
Hollywood
Act
Luckily
Originally
Why
Raised
That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Laura Dern
Life
Love
Good
Feel Good
Other
Feel
Turn
Each
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Laura Dern
About
Make
Courageous
Behaviour
Human
Human Behaviour
Movies
Really
Bold
Thing
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern
Heroes
Faults
About
Something
Accessible
Who
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Laura Dern
Buy
Business
People
Ugly
Overall
Sell
Get
Unfortunately
Which
Movies
Really
Conglomerate
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern
Nature
Man
Trouble
Control
He
Decide
Deep
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.
Laura Dern
Woman
Heart
Women
People
Thought
Made
Few
Wild
Says
She
Yes
Few People
Really
Exploiting
Means
Showing
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
You
People
Only
Like
Know
Really
Act
Fun
Bimbo
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
Laura Dern
Opportunity
Will
Own
Hopefully
Direct
Given
More
Writers
Female
Material
Lot
Wanting
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
Laura Dern
Mom
Great
Old
Become
Alfred Hitchcock
Summer
Martin
Martin Scorsese
Knew
Years
Scorsese
Hitchcock
Childhood
Wanted
Working
Dad
Actor
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.
Laura Dern
Work
Love
Me
Woman
Characters
Parent
Learn
Reveal
How
Discovering
Human
Human Beings
Interest
Flaws
Themselves
Teach
Beings
Grow
Actor
Deepest
Things
I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern
Love
Being
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