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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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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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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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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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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 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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History's a resource.
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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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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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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 find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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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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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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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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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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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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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.