Quotes By Laura Linney

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.

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 get cold - really cold - when I travel.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

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.

Working with special needs children is hard.

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

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

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!

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