“I don’t know if I would have made the same choices if I hadn’t grown up around the passion my parents had for playing authentic and deeply flawed characters.

“Their artistic passion existed, like another entity in the house. Now I get that I wouldn’t be a full parent to my kids without it, any more than my parents would have been.”

Laura Dern [LA Times July 16, 2006; her parents are Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd]

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