Laura Dern Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've always loved film more than theater.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I just love, I love, I love movies.

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

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

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.