Laura Linney Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Laura Linney
Laura Linney Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Laura Linney on Wise Famous Quotes.
I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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 always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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.
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.
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'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 could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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 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 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.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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'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'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.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.