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Quotes by Laura Linney

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
– Laura Linney
Fortunately, I'm in a perfect position for me. I'm able to work, have a wonderful time, and I'm not really a celebrity, and that's great.
– Laura Linney
I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.
– Laura Linney
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
– Laura Linney
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
– Laura Linney
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
– Laura Linney
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
– Laura Linney
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
– Laura Linney
When I first came to LA, I had my lovely list of theatre credits. My resume was golden in my mind. I had worked regionally, I'd worked on Broadway. And a casting director looked at my resume and said 'You really haven't done anything, have you?' I was just dumbstruck. The attitude here is that theatre is what you do when you can't get filmwork, and that is just insulting to the marrow of my bones!
– Laura Linney
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
– Laura Linney
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
– Laura Linney
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
– Laura Linney
The thing about death is that it's honest.
– Laura Linney
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
– Laura Linney
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
– Laura Linney
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
– Laura Linney
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
– Laura Linney
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
– Laura Linney
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
– Laura Linney
I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
– Laura Linney
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
– Laura Linney
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
– Laura Linney
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
– Laura Linney
I love 70's music.
– Laura Linney
I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
– Laura Linney
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
– Laura Linney
I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
– Laura Linney
I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
– Laura Linney
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
– Laura Linney
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
– Laura Linney
History's a resource.
– Laura Linney
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
– Laura Linney
Doing the right thing has power.
– Laura Linney
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
– Laura Linney