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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Laura Dern
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern
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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
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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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
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Laura Dern
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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.
Laura Dern
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern
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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
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