Quotes By Laura Linney

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

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 on the Upper East Side.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

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

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

Doing the right thing has power.

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

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

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

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

I love working closely with people.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.