Quotes from Laura Linney

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.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

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.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

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

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 grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

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

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