Laura Linney Quotes
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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!
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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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.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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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.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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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.
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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.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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History's a resource.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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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.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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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.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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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.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.