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Laura Dern

(1967) Film Actor United States

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Laura Dern is a film actor from the United States, best known for Honey, Baby, Mine.

Quick Facts About Laura Dern

Born: February 10, 1967
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: Honey, Baby, Mine
Spouse: Ben Harper

About Laura Dern

She also received an Actor Award.

Awards & Honors

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

Quotes by Laura Dern · Page 4

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

Computer

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

Day

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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It…

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

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Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

Movies

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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

Actor

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

Amazing

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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to…

Hollywood

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I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office…

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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try…

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I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom…

Catholic

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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…

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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've…

Amazing

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I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to…

Feelings

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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not…

Art

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

Character

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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

Being

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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

Eyes

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

Cinema

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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you…

Bimbo

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Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a…

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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

Comedies

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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

Career

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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're…

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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

Books

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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a…

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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

Art

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Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to…

Differences

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The only thing that I can personally turn to is compassion, gentleness, a willingness to allow myself to be angry instead of…

Angry

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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a…

Audition

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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't…

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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew…

Hope

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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

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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it.…

Actor

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I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate…

Family

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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold…

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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have…

Children

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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built…

Film

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