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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
Laura Dern
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Laura Dern
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 10
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Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper
Laura Elizabeth Dern
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way it was normal to expose things.
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I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression. There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves, and there are definitely shadows in all of us.
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It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.
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I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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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?
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