Quotes By Laura Linney

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

I love 70's music.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Working with special needs children is hard.

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!

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

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

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

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 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 love to work in all sorts of different situations.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.