Laura Linney Quotes - Page 3

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

  Laura Linney

  Our Relationship, Exploits

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

  Laura Linney

  Stars, Eugenics

  "Good time girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• 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.

  Laura Linney

  Actors, World, Scripts

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• 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

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• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Opportunity, Long

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

  Laura Linney

  Three, Gone, Hours

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• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

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  Pain, Character, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Journey, People, Laughing

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Laura Linney

  Pain, Thinking, Should

  "Laura Linney Explores the Art, Artifice of Acting". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 28, 2007.

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

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  Father, Actresses, Manhattan

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• To be too knowing is a downfall.

  Laura Linney

  Knowing, Downfall

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Journey, Thinking

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• I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

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  Nice, People, Lucky

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

  Laura Linney

  Stars, Laughing, Lists

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• History's a resource.

  Laura Linney

  Resources

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• Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

  Laura Linney

  People, Wish, Different

  Interview with Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.

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

  Laura Linney

  Goal, Firsts, Business First

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

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• 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.

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  Nice, Appreciate, Way

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• But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

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  Jobs, Long, Interesting

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• 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.

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

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  Teacher, Book, Writing

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

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  Taken, Likes, Picture Taken

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• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

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  Orange, People, Looks

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

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  Sexy, People, Way

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Aunt, Remember

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