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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'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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Think

Father

" I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. "

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East

Manhattan

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

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

" 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. "

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I Can

" I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old. "

" You have to relish the challenge of television. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Laura Linney

Questions

Know

" I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with. "

Laura Linney

Happen

Been

" I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy. "

" The thing about death is that it's honest. "

" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. "

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

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

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

" I certainly didn't have a nanny. "

Laura Linney

Nanny

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" 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. "

" I don't think you should exploit your own pain. "