Laura Dern Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.”

“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.”

“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.”