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Laura Dern

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

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Donna Grant

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

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Donna Grant

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

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Donna Grant

"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."

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Donna Grant

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

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Donna Grant

"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."

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Donna Grant

"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

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Donna Grant

"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

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Donna Grant

"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."

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Laura Dern
"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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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"I've always loved film more than theater."

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Laura Dern
"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"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."

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