I’ve seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can’t find a home. – Laura Linney
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else – problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. – Laura Linney
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! – 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
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
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. – Laura Linney
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
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. – Laura Linney
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
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
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. – Laura Linney
My castings sort of go in phases. There’ll be several icy professional parts – a lawyer or a cop. And then there’ll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. – Laura Linney
I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn’t interested. – Laura Linney
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
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked – but it’s immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. – Laura Linney
What I love about a play is that it’s such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage. – Laura Linney
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. – 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
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
