Quotes By Laura Linney

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.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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.