Quotes By Laura Linney

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

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!

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.

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 grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

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

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 could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

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.

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.

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

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

History's a resource.

I love working closely with people.

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.

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

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.