Laura Linney Quotes
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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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.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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.
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I love working closely with people.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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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.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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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.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
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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.
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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.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.