Laura Dern

“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.”

“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.”

“Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.”

“You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.”

“You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.”

“I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.”

“I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.”

“Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.”

“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.”

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

“I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.”

“I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.”

“It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.”

“You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.”

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

“I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.”

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

“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.”

“You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'”

“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.”