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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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