I've watched women in various workplace environments and I know within my industry as well, creating a community of other women workers and having a group text where you share transparency [ helps ]. ' What do you make ?' ' Are you getting overtime ?' ' Did you get vacation time ?' ' What happened when you had a baby ?' so when you use your voice, you're very well informed.

Laura Dern

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I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

dog sleep animal

I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

jurassic-park genius together

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

play giving character

I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

teacher school thinking

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

get-real ugly people

There is so much in the world to care about. by Laura Dern

There is so much in the world to care about.

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

inspired affected artist

Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

good-friend catholic school

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.

agents whole-life running

I love comedy. David's Lynch the only person I've worked with more than once who sees me as a specific thing - he sees me as the sexy bimbo, in ways, and he also sees me as Lucille Ball. Actually, Nick Cage and I did Lucy and Ricky in two scenes in Wild at heart that were cut because the movie was four hours long.

sexy cutting heart

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

struggle drama people

People have forever been interested in twins. by Laura Dern

People have forever been interested in twins.

twins forever people

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. It's not like, "I don't make studio films; I work for David Lynch and maybe a few American Playhouse directors, but that's it" - I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

done journey darkness

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about huma... by Laura Dern

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

courageous behaviour humans

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

film care scene

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

firefighter work-out hero

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

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

strange-world strange world

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.

revolutionary artist want

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The first day we did a scene together I came down the stairs and my mom pointed that finger at me: "Don't you dare talk to that boy again!" You know, I've seen that finger for 23 years. And I started laughing, she started laughing, then the whole crew broke up - in that moment, they all knew that she and I had been there before.