Laura Dern famous 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.
-- Laura Dern

#Dog #Sleep #Animal

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

#People #Ugly #Get Real

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
-- Laura Dern

#Agents

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

#Hero #Work Out #Faces

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

#Style #Would Be #Film

I've always loved film more than theater.
-- Laura Dern

#Film #Theater

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

#People #Directors #Lucky

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

#Raised #Protagonists #Flawed

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

#Mother #Fall #Actresses

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

#Jupiter #Tickets #Plans

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

#Moving #Commitment #Differences

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

#Character #Play #Giving

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

#Film #All Time

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

#World #Strange

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

#Mean #Heart #People

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

#Fun #People

I just love, I love, I love movies.
-- Laura Dern

#Movie Love #Theater #Movie Theater

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

#Cycling #Careers #Would Be

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.
-- Laura Dern

#Running #Agents #Running Away

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

#Behaviour #Courageous #Humans

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

#Artist #Inspired

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

#Feel Good #Turns #Feels

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

#Funny #Real #Dumb

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

#Office #Noses #Boxes

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

#Artist #Want #Revolutionary

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

#Children #Struggle #Dark

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

#Responsibility #Understanding #Actors

Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-- Laura Dern

#Jobs #Party #Differences

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

#Stars #Office #Hollywood

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

#Mother #Firsts #Kind

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

#Men #Trouble

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

#Men #Track #Likes

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents
-- Laura Dern

#Parent #Desire

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

#Hero #Faults