Laura Dern

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.

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

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'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

I don't like to get in front of people.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.