Latest Laura Linney Quotes from Interviews

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• Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

  Laura Linney

  Fun, Fighting, Culture

  Source: www.elle.com

• People have to look to the right places for guidance. Looking at a certain type of entertainment shouldn't be where you go for guidance. To zone out, have a laugh, sure - but it's not a great example on how to navigate on a journey. There are other places to look.

  Laura Linney

  Journey, People, Laughing

  Source: www.elle.com

• There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.

  Laura Linney

  Technology, People, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

• You have a lot more to give, the older you get. And you want to give it. I mean, some people want to give it. But there is a desire to pass down, to have a hand in the past and a hand in the future. There's a continuum.

  Laura Linney

  Mean, Past, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I get very, very, very irritable with people who complain about getting old, because I know a lot of people who would gladly trade places with us. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm not saying it doesn't hurt your feelings, I'm not saying it's not painful - and physically as well as mentally and spiritually - and it's frightening at times. However, people have really lost perspective, and it's a really bizarre topic of conversation that it's become a cultural peg in our world that aging is a bad thing. It's not logical to me.

  Laura Linney

  Hurt, People, Perspective

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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

  Laura Linney

  Mean, Mind, Age

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• Some big movies are terrific, and some aren't. They're made for different reasons, and they have different impacts and they're very different experiences making them. But if they're good, if you're with good people, then hooray.

  Laura Linney

  People, Different, Reason

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Men, Inspire, Quality

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• 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.

  Laura Linney

  People, Helping, Help Me

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.

  Laura Linney

  Selfish, Mean, Selfless

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• There's a real passing down in the theater, almost ad nauseam. You have to listen to older people talk about their experience, but it makes you very aware of what has come before you or what is coming after you - that you're a part of a link in a chain. It's not all about you.

  Laura Linney

  Real, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people.

  Laura Linney

  Father, Creativity, Discipline

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• 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.

  Laura Linney

  Moving, Collaboration

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

  Laura Linney

  Writing, Needs, Actors

  "Laura Linney Talks The Exorcism of Emily Rose". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. September 8, 2005.

• I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

  Laura Linney

  Skills, Actors, Levels

  "Laura Linney Talks The Exorcism of Emily Rose". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. September 8, 2005.

• I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.

  Laura Linney

  Crazy, Journey, Thinking

• I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

  Laura Linney

  Curious

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

• When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. 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.

  Laura Linney

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

• I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Boredom, Lazy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

• I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Conjecture, Situation

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

• When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

  Laura Linney

  Emotional, People, Identity

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

• The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

  Laura Linney

  Honesty, Honest, Core

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

• I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Bad Day, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

• The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Style, Way

  "Mr. Holmes: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 With Congo". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

• Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Home, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.