Quotes By Laura Linney

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

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.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

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.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

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.

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

History's a resource.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

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

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.

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