“ I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about. Laura Dern
“ Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. Laura Dern
“ I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. Laura Dern
“ I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood. Laura Dern
“ I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. Laura Dern
“ People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired. Laura Dern
“ Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my… Laura Dern
“ Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. 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… Laura Dern
“ If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. Laura Dern
“ I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and… 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
“ I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. Laura Dern
“ My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to under… Laura Dern
“ I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-dau… Laura Dern
“ My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. Laura Dern
