Laura Dern Quotes

The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.

The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.

Sometimes, if you go to the same gyms, the fans catch on to that, and they start hanging out at the gyms. It becomes a little bit of a circus.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.