Laura Linney Quotes

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

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

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 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.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

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

Doing the right thing has power.

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.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

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.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

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

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

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

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

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 very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

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

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 always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

But I've also spread my net very wide. 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.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

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

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

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

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

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

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

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

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.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

I love working closely with people.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.