Laura Dern Quotes

"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."

"Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body."

"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."

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

"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble."

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

"Jealousy is a scary thing."

"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."

"For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list."

"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."

"If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun."

"People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired."

"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."

"It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do."

"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."

"I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work."

"I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters."

"There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions."

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

"Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer."

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

"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."

"At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is."

"I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people."

"I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18."

"I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character."

"I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'"

"The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done."

"My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour."

"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."