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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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"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

"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

"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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Donna Grant

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

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Donna Grant

"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."

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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
"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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"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
"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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Laura Dern
"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."

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Laura Dern
"The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour."

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Laura Dern
"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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Laura Dern
"Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly."

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