Top 198 Quotes & Sayings by Laura Dern - Page 2

Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

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

Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

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

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'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

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.

My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

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.

I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

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

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 care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

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

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

God bless nannies.

I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

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

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

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.

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 can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

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.

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.

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

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.

Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.

I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

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

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

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?'

Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

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

Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

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

What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

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.'

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

Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

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

I resent ever being stereotyped.

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

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

I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

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