Laura Linney Quotes

I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is ... what they call 'film-ready.'

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Working with special needs children is hard.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

The good thing is that I'm always honest.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I love working closely with people.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

Doing the right thing has power.

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

You have to relish the challenge of television.

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

I love 70's music.