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

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

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

track likes men

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

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

turns feel-good feels

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and Dav... by Laura Dern

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

jupiter tickets plans

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.

struggle dark children

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real... by Laura Dern

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

dumb real funny

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

my-boyfriend movie home

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

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

faults hero

The only thing that I can personally turn to is compassion, gentleness, a willingness to allow myself to be angry instead of like why am I so angry. It's so embarrassing. I've got to let this go. I'm not going to be a good person if I walk around angry like this.

embarrassing good-person compassion

Look, if somebody said tomorrow, "We're making a Lethal Weapon formula movie, but it's incredibly well-written and for two women," I'm not going to say, "Oh, forget it, it's formula." I got an idea the other day, that somebody should write a typical formula movie, a Lethal Weapon, and make it with me and my dad. It could be all father-and-daughter capers. But I'd want someone really weird to direct it.

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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.

actors understanding responsibility

You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and -women who are telling the story, it's the greatest result. I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas.

canvas people thinking

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.

differences commitment moving

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

my-dad dad mother

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.

kind mother firsts

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.

heart mean people

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."

mother faces fall

I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, "You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him."

guy mother thinking

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

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

protagonists raised flaws

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.

lucky directors people

I've always loved film more than theater, and film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that ability to go in and do your work and have no judgment around it, and feel honest. Then, much later, it's presented to people. But in theater, people come backstage after a performance and you're about to do the same play again the next night, and people say, "Well, I didn't really believe that emotion" or whatever. It's really hard for me, I like to be closed up and just do the work.

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