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" I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' "
Laura Linney
Just
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Work
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" 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! "
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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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" 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'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. "
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" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "
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" Doing the right thing has power. "
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" I certainly didn't have a nanny. "
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" The goal seems to me at times just to be business first. "
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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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" 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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" If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Loved
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" The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. "
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Industry
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. "
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" I love 70's music. "
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I Love
" 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. "
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" For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. "
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" At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. "
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" 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. "
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