Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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
Laura Linney

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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
Laura Linney

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney
Laura Linney

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.