179 Quotes by Laura Dern

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 box-office hit.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

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 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 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 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.

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.

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

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