Laura Dern Quotes

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 failure into brave achievement.

~ 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 bad thing to try for.

~ Laura Dern

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

~ 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

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-daughters.

~ 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

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

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

~ Laura Dern

Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

~ Laura Dern

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

~ Laura Dern

Jealousy is a scary thing.

~ 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 mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

~ 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 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

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

~ 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'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

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 understand in human behaviour.

~ Laura Dern

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

~ Laura Dern