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" I get cold - really cold - when I travel. "
Laura Linney
Cold
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Really
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" 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. "
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" What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage. "
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" I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. "
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" I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person. "
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" I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. "
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" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "
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" Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. "
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" I crave a cone of silence every once in while. "
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" I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" Working with special needs children is hard. "
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" I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' "
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" 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. "
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" I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. "
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" 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. "
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" The thing about death is that it's honest. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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