Quotes By Laura Linney

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

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

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

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I love 70's music.

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

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

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

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!

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

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.

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

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

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

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

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

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.