Top 119 Quotes & Sayings by Laura Linney
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Laura Linney.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Working with special needs children is hard.
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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.
If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
History's a resource.
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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.
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.
The good thing is that I'm always honest.
I love working closely with people.
I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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 mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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.
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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 grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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.
Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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!
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
The thing about death is that it's honest.
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.
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.
Doing the right thing has power.
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.
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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!
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.
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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