Laura Linney Quotes

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
Laura Linney

Courage, Important, Humility

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.
Laura Linney

Good, God, Nice

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
Laura Linney

Self, Find, Sense

Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney

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.
Laura Linney

Sometimes, Might, Call

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
Laura Linney

Good, Learning, End

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
Laura Linney

Truth, Sense, Comedy

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
Laura Linney

Hard, Stuff, Carry

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
Laura Linney

Able, Kids, Loved

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
Laura Linney

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
Laura Linney

Change, Everyone, Point

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.
Laura Linney

Someone, Die, Fall

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
Laura Linney

Life, Time, Fight

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
Laura Linney

Life, Someone, Understand

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
Laura Linney

Good, Heart, Magnetic

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney

School, Book, Writing

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
Laura Linney

Show, Cancer, Tv

Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Laura Linney

Boring, Courtroom, Dramas

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney

Happen, Makes, Deal

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
Laura Linney

Fear, Anxiety, Actor

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
Laura Linney

Time, God, Character

History's a resource.
Laura Linney

History, Resource

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
Laura Linney

Saying, Person, Laugh

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.
Laura Linney

Time, Good, Character

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
Laura Linney

Life, Nice, Able

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Nationality: American

Born: February 5, 1964

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