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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.Collection: Laura
I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.Collection: Laura
When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'Collection: Laura
I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.Collection: Laura
When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.Collection: Laura
I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.Collection: Laura
At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'Collection: Laura
David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.Collection: Laura
Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.Collection: Laura
I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.Collection: Laura
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.Collection: Laura
All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.Collection: Laura
Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.Collection: Laura
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.Collection: Laura
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.Collection: Laura
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.Collection: Laura
I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.Collection: Laura
Every role is a new form of surrender.Collection: Laura
God bless nannies.Collection: Laura
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.Collection: Laura
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.Collection: Laura
I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.Collection: Laura
Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.Collection: Laura
If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.Collection: Laura
What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.Collection: Laura
You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.Collection: Laura
Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.Collection: Laura
I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.Collection: Laura
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.Collection: Laura
Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.Collection: Laura
I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.Collection: Laura
There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.Collection: Laura
I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.Collection: Laura
I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.Collection: Laura
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.Collection: Laura
Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.Collection: Laura
I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.Collection: Laura
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.Collection: Laura
Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.Collection: Laura
Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.Collection: Laura
There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.Collection: Laura