Top 45 Laura Linney Quotes

I’m noise-sensitive. It’s always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

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

It’s very hard to put forth a film that’s about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

I’m sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

I love 70’s music.

Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.

I’ve seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can’t find a home.

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.

If there’s one thing that I’ve done on purpose it’s to take whatever job, so long as it’s interesting and challenging, whether it’s theatre, radio, TV or film.

You have to relish the challenge of television.

I’m lucky because I don’t like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me – I feel it, I go very red.

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

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn’t interested.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

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.

You know when someone’s over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can’t believe it.

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

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.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn’t express myself in the written word.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Some people’s personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

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.

Working with special needs children is hard.

History’s a resource.

A magnetic personality doesn’t necessarily indicate a good heart.

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

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what’s universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

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

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

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That’s why I was in school for so long.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

I don’t think you should exploit your own pain.

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.

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.

What I love about a play is that it’s such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I love working closely with people.

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.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

I just want to say, ‘Go work! It doesn’t matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!’

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.

I don’t think I’m exactly gregarious, you know. I’m not usually known as the loud person in the room.

I get cold – really cold – when I travel.