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
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. – Laura Dern
Something that I’ve cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. – Laura Dern
As an actor, you’re not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. – Laura Dern
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. – Laura Dern
Luckily, I was raised by people who’d already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn’t want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. – Laura Dern
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
Anybody you make a movie with when you’re 12 and they’re 14, you’re going to know them your whole life. – Laura Dern
Having egregious divorces – where you just hate each other – is really the easy way out. – Laura Dern