Quotes by Laura Linney

About Laura Linney:

Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Tony Award nominee, she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for Frasier (2003–04) and John Adams (2008). From 2010–13, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013. She is also a two-time Golden Globe Award winner.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

Laura Linney

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Laura Linney

Working with special needs children is hard.

Laura Linney

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Laura Linney

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney

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

Laura Linney

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

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

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Laura Linney

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.

Laura Linney

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.

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLaura Linney
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornFebruary 5, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor