Quotes from Laura Linney

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

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

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

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.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Doing the right thing has power.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

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.

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 think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

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

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

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

History's a resource.

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

I love 70's music.

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

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

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.

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.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

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