Top 30 Laura Dern Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”

— Laura Dern

2. “I just love, I love, I love movies.”

— Laura Dern

3. “When man decides he can control nature, he’s in deep trouble.”

— Laura Dern

4. “You don’t have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”

— Laura Dern

5. “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.”

— Laura Dern

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6. “It’s a strange world, as David Lynch would say.”

— Laura Dern

7. “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

8. “You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin.”

— Laura Dern

9. “What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?”

— Laura Dern

10. “We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn’t work out like that.”

— Laura Dern

11. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.”

— Laura Dern

12. “There’s always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.”

— Laura Dern

13. “There is so much in the world to care about.”

— Laura Dern

14. “I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.”

— Laura Dern

15. “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

16. “I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn’t get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We’re not going to fall into that.”

— Laura Dern

17. “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.”

— Laura Dern

18. “It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great ’30’s film.”

— Laura Dern

19. “I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.”

— Laura Dern

20. “My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She’s that kind of mother.”

— Laura Dern

21. “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.”

— Laura Dern

22. “I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.”

— Laura Dern

23. “If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.”

— Laura Dern

24. “That’s life – to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.”

— Laura Dern

25. “I’ve always loved film more than theater.”

— Laura Dern

26. “I’m interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.”

— Laura Dern

27. “There’s something so accessible about heroes who have faults.”

— Laura Dern

28. “It’s always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.”

— Laura Dern

29. “Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.”

— Laura Dern

30. “I really don’t consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I’ve never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.”

— Laura Dern

31. “I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.”

— Laura Dern

32. “I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they’d hire you, and that’s where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it’s the actor’s responsibility to publicize his or her films.”

— Laura Dern

33. “The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.”

— Laura Dern

34. “Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.”

— Laura Dern