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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney
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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
Laura Linney -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney -
I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
Laura Linney -
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
Laura Linney -
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
Laura Linney -
I certainly didn't have a nanny.
Laura Linney
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney