Laura Dern
Laura Dern

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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

Laura Dern
Laura Dern

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.