Laura Linney Quotes
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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 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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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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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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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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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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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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History's a resource.
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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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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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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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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've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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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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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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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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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.