Quotes By Laura Linney

You have to relish the challenge of television.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

Doing the right thing has power.

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.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

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 grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

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.

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.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

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

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 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.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.