Laura Dern
Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper is an American actress. For her performance in the 1991 film Rambling Rose, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while for her performance in the 2014 film Wild, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Mask, Smooth Talk, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Jurassic Park, Citizen Ruth, October Sky, I Am Sam, Inland Empire, The Master, The Fault in Our Stars, and Star Wars:...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth10 February 1967
CityLos Angeles, CA
Laura Dern quotes about
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
I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.
You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
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.
I just love, I love, I love movies.
If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.
You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
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.
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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.
I've always loved film more than theater.
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.