A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there. There aren't many of those.
Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate ever since he went there.
Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant.
Film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that ability to do your work and have no judgment around it.
I always like to play people who are full of surprises.
I always longed for music to be a discovery of self, a journey full of imagery and passion.
I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough. I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats.
I don't know how people parent in this day and age.
I don't think I could play any of the parts I've played since Wild at Heart.
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.
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. Give me a break.
I find the position of someone like Tom Cruise very scary.
I haven't worked with my dad, but I hope I get to. He's so irreverent, and you never know what is going to come out of his mouth.
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.
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.
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.
I like to be closed up and just do the work.
I love people who fight the system.
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.
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.
I really don't want to do something my heart's not in; it's just too much work and it can be heartbreaking.
I seem to feel everything very deeply.
I study Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression.
I think someone who is connected to their work must be easier to reach than others.
I think, How can a love scene be graphic?
I want to have a psychology degree and work professionally with children. It'll probably never happen. I'd also love to write.
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
I was at a party with eight people, all from different backgrounds, from all over the world. And every single person had had some weird experience as a child.
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.
I'd never done nudity in a movie; I've never condoned it for myself, but David Lynch wanted it, and I was completely comfortable with it because the love story was so protected.
I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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.
I'm supposed to just be an actor and be honest and authentic. I'm not supposed to look a certain way.
I'm sure I'll direct. I guess my greatest goal is doing it all well.
I'm very connected to my own family, and I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. My parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way; it was normal to expose things.
I've always loved film more than theater.
I've read a lot of scripts recently in which there is a trend towards very violent, raw, dark genre movie-making.
If you have a movie coming out and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
In terms of my education as an actor, I feel very proud of my choices.
In the past, the people around me were always respectful and loving to each other in the media. But others utilise the media with total disregard for the feelings of others.
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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.
It's shocking what's created through the process of working with the studio, and what makes money.
It's so exciting as an actor to get to explore human nature. I could talk for hours about this.
Katharine Hepburn was such a beacon. She just lived her life. I'm just gonna do my thing.
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Many of us have been more than one person.
Movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.
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.
My parents acted. When I was a child, I grew up on the films they were working on in the '70s.
My parents were doing a television show called Castle Keep. I came to the set in a drawer, which is what my parents used as a crib. t was like right from the hospital onto the set.
Obviously, the urge to molest children comes from some experience the person has had as a child, and he or she never worked it out.
Our hero? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Using a body as a shield against bullets? That's weird.
That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
The area in which I feel safest and most respected with my parents is in acting. I've gotta say that my mom is extraordinary.
The current political climate, and that we're in wartime, may make filmmakers turn more towards the truth now.
The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology. Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something.
The investment has to be within yourself in any partnership.
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
There's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work.
There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves.
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
We call each other husband and wife. We haven't done the ceremony because of schedule. But we're well into a family together. We have one child and on our way to a second. Very much partners.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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.
When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.
When I'm in a bad mood, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room. You just don't know what you'd do.
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa.
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 earned an Emmy nomination for playing a lesbian on the famous 'coming out' episode of Ellen in 1997.
Laura made her directorial debut with the romantic short made for Showtime, The Gift in 1994.
Laura plays the role of a caring girlfriend of dentist Steve Martin before his life is thrown off-track by a seductive, drug-seeking patient (Helena Bonham Carter) in Novacaine.
Laura took a few years off from the big screen in 2002 to spend time with boyfriend Ben Harper and raise their first child, Ellery.
Laura played a criminologist alongside Kevin Costner, in the Clint Eastwood dark film A Perfect World, in 2001.
Laura received a $2,000.00 salary for her role in the 1985 movie Mask.
Laura is a student of religion and psychology in her spare time, finding the media spotlight the downside of being an actress.
Laura has turned down many high profile roles in favor of smaller ones with something important to say. She likes to work with film makers with strong vision of what they want and this, more than fame, has been the focus of her career.
Laura starred as a pregnant glue-sniffer caught in a struggle between pro-choice and pro-life forces in the satiric 1996 hit Citizen Ruth.
Laura played daughter to her real-life mother in 5 movies: Citizen Ruth in 1996, Daddy and Them in 2001, Rambling Rose in 1991, Wild at Heart in 1990, and White Lightning in 1973.
Laura married Ben Harper on December 23, 2005. They have two children, son Ellery Walker, born on August 21, 2001, and daughter Jaya, born in Los Angeles on November 28, 2004.
Laura earned her first Oscar nomination in 1991 for 'Best Actress, starring as a pure-hearted nymphomanic in Martha Coolidge's Rambling Rose. Her mother co-starred and earned the 'Best Supporting Actress' Oscar nod, marking the first mother-daughter team to win nominations in the same year for the same film.
Laura landed a memorable role as a chain-smoking, hell-raising fireball, named Lula Pace Fortune, Nicolas Cage's free-spirited traveling companion in David Lynch's Wild At Heart in 1990.
Laura avoided being typecast as the 'good girl' when she turned in an impressive performance as a sexually curious teenager opposite Treat Williams, exploring the power of lust in Smooth Talk in 1995.
Laura landed a small role playing an obnoxious party crasher in Adrian Lyne's Foxes in 1980.
Laura made her television debut on The Secret Storm in 1972, her mother was appearing as a regular on the show at the time.
Laura's Godmother is Shelley Winters, her grandfather George Dern served as Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt, and her great-cousin was Tennessee Williams.
Laura was influenced from a young age to pursue acting, by watching her mother and father (Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern) on movie sets. She was exposed to the movie industry from infancy, obtaining several bit parts as a child.
Laura bears an amazing resemblance to tennis star Steffi Graff. The two are frequently mistaken for each other.
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