Latest Linda Cardellini Quotes from Interviews

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• You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

  Linda Cardellini

  Insightful, Kind, Generous

• I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.

  Linda Cardellini

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

• I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.

  Linda Cardellini

  Eye, Thinking, People

• I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.

  Linda Cardellini

  Hurt, Thinking, People

• Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting a way of life that they sometimes come back to and it's not close to them.

  Linda Cardellini

  Military, War, Sometimes

• We hurt each other because we care about each other.

  Linda Cardellini

  Hurt, Care

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I've been very lucky to have been chosen for and to have chosen roles that are good. Some are better than others and some projects are better than others, whether it's female or male characters. There's still more that we can do and there's still more stories to be told. I would love to see more female-driven projects in general.

  Linda Cardellini

  Character, Female, Lucky

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think there are great roles for women in television because there is time to allow those characters to evolve. Even if you're the wife or the girlfriend or whatever it is that we women are, playing those things on TV, they are much more drawn out and there are greater arcs for the role. The roles are more integral to the complexity of the story.

  Linda Cardellini

  Girlfriend, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.

  Linda Cardellini

  Fun, People, Dramatic

  Source: www.elle.com

• Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

  Linda Cardellini

  Mean, Office

  Source: www.elle.com

• Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

  Linda Cardellini

  Children, Shoes, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

  Linda Cardellini

  Trying, Pressure, Moments

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

• I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

  Linda Cardellini

  Crazy, Thinking, Odds

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

• I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

  Linda Cardellini

  Real, Responsibility, Home

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.