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" 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. "

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" 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

Work

Great

" I love to work in all sorts of different situations. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' "

" The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. "

" 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

Ride

Life

" 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

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

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

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

Laura Linney

Stuff

Lot

" 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. "

" The good thing is that I'm always honest. "

" 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. "

" History's a resource. "

Laura Linney

Resource

History

" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "

" 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. "

" The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it. "

" I just have to concentrate on doing what I do. "

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

Laura Linney

Con

Book

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to relish the challenge of television. "

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

Laura Linney

Just

Seems

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

" 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 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

Fall

Someone

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

Laura Linney

Just

Work