Quotes By 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.

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

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.

History's a resource.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I love 70's music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

The good thing is that I'm always honest.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.