Everything’s cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. – Laura Dern
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. – 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 love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He’s completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work. – Laura Dern
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
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn’t realize they were comedies. – Laura Dern
I’m moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. – Laura Dern
I think it’s about not just the crisis you’re in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That’s what interests me. – Laura Dern
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
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
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius. – Laura Dern
All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human – honest in some way. – Laura Dern
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don’t work and years where you work. – Laura Dern
Stay true to your own voice, and don’t worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper. – 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
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
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn’t realize that if he wasn’t your cup of tea, you got to leave. – 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
Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It’s very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded. – Laura Dern
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
