Laura Linney Quotes
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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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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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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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 experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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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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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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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 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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History's a resource.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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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 find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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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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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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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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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.