American - Actress | February 10, 1967 -
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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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.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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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.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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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.
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I love being in my 40s.
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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