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.

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.

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

I'm not just another bimbo.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.