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
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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 whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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 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.
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that
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
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour
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
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time