American - Actress | February 10, 1967 -
I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
Laura Dern
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Decision-making is very scary for me.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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