Quotes By Laura Linney

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.

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

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

Working with special needs children is hard.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

The thing about death is that it's honest.

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

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

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

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

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.

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

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

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.

History's a resource.

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

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.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

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.

The good thing is that I'm always honest.