Quotes from Laura Linney

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

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.

History's a resource.

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

Doing the right thing has power.

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

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

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!

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.

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.

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

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

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

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.