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Laura Dern Quotes
Laura Dern
American
Actress
Born:
Feb 10
,
1967
Actor
Love
Me
People
Work
You
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
Laura Dern
Me
People
Born
Something
Pushed
Genes
Know
Lot
Wanted
Anyone
Whether
Asked
Act
Acting
Certainly
Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
Laura Dern
Me
Challenges
People
Challenge
Become
Think
Else
Out
Boring
Taking
Like
Surprise
Any
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Really
Acting
Figured
Chore
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
Laura Dern
Life
Parenting
You
Hurt
Try
Hurts
Bad
Bad Thing
Know
Learned
End
Arts
Happening
In The End
While
Growth
Thing
I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
Laura Dern
Love
Try
Care
Some
About
Reason
Things
I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
Laura Dern
Work
Sometimes
Someone
Never
Been
Begets
Unfortunately
Who
Applied
Career
It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
Laura Dern
Time
You
Say
One Thing
Talk
Forced
Read
Another
Off
Anybody
Want
Anything
Actor
Actually
Thing
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
Face
Films
Fluent
France
French
Mess
Make
Becoming
Go
Want
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
Laura Dern
People
World
Live
Enormous
Way
Pretty
Feel
Hard
Who
Things
God bless nannies.
Laura Dern
God
Bless
God Bless
Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
Laura Dern
Work
Great
Eyes
Matter
Incredible
Says
Laura
Mars
Some
Great Work
Done
Movie
Anyone
If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
Laura Dern
You
People
Will
Build
Out
About
Talking
Coming
Movie
Scripts
Amount
What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
Laura Dern
Good
Me
Man
Woman
Women
People
Will
Think
Other
Consider
Nine
Some
Girlfriend
Give
Give Me
Scene
Scenes
Part
Cheats
Supportive
Him
Parts
Always
Very
Maybe
Just
Different
Want
Break
Loves
Mean
Hollywood
Hollywood People
Who
Play
You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.
Laura Dern
Character
You
Director
Soul
Starts
Those
Fabulous
Lead
Part
Hot
New
Know
Offered
Goes
Who
Many
Film
Here
I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
Laura Dern
Smith
Always
Goes
Wanted
Washington
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern
Love
Freedom
Failure
Achievement
People
Liberty
Parents
Sense
Sets
Run
Been
Brave
Worked
Require
Exploration
Who
Actor
Raised
Set
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
Laura Dern
Good
Me
Knowing
Greatest
Came
Being
Fortune
Actor
Good Fortune
Flow
Raised
Career
Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
Laura Dern
Work
About
Something
Inventors
Hysterical
True
Because
Getting
Just
Stories
Painfully
Whole
Deeply
Cared
Career
Filmmakers
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
Laura Dern
Seen
Parents
Cried
Way
See
Something
Know
Flash
Where
I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
Laura Dern
Work
Love
Beautiful
Wish
Own
Everything
Eastwood
About
He
Him
His
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Irreverent
Again
Including
Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
Laura Dern
Great
You
Yourself
Girl
Half
Everyone
Unless
Project
Kids
Marriages
Shame
Through
Divorce
Longer
Sadly
Around
Doing
Been
Male
Cultural
End
Friends
Walking
Want
Certainly
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
Laura Dern
Great
Me
Struggle
Characters
Bad
Bad Guy
Something
Guy
He
Calls
Understand
Always
Material
Behaviour
Often
Human
Human Behaviour
Interested
Movies
Really
Dad
Thing
Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
Laura Dern
Love
Me
Boy
Lot
Loving
Means
There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.
Laura Dern
Love
Long
First
Fall
Secure
Stay
Layer
Had
Feel
Make
First Place
Ham
Up
Authentic
Did
Maybe
Just
Artists
Grand
Place
Them
Themselves
Us
Choices
Use
Who
Expression
Reinvent
Careers
Filmmakers
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
Laura Dern
Nature
Become
Human Nature
Human
Interested
Chose
Actor
Why
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
Laura Dern
Would
Would-Be
Like
Always
Normal
Normal Childhood
Wondered
Childhood
Jealousy is a scary thing.
Laura Dern
Jealousy
Scary
Scary Thing
Thing
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