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" 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. "

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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

American

School

Character

" I get cold - really cold - when I travel. "

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

" I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. "

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

" The goal seems to me at times just to be business first. "

Laura Linney

Just

Seems

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

" 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. "

" I love 70's music. "

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

" 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. "

" You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first. "

" The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. "

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

" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. "

" 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 don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade! "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Laura Linney

Actress

Father

" 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. "

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

" People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. "