Laura Linney Quotes - Page 3

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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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• My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

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  Growing Up, Father, Profound

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

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  Yeah, Lows, More Money

  "Laura Linney Goes to the Dark Side" by Ron Dicker, www.sfgate.com. September 04, 2005.

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• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

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  Play, Investment, Happens

  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.

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  Goal, Firsts, Business First

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

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• Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

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  Fame, Easier, Deals

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

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  Smile, Believe, Way

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

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  Stars, Eugenics

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

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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.

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  Stars, Laughing, Lists

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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.

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  People, Wish, Different

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

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

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  Our Relationship, Exploits

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• 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.

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  Curious

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

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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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• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

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  Needs, Bags, Might

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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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• It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.

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  Son, Hot, Coal

  "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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• 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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• 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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• To be too knowing is a downfall.

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  Knowing, Downfall

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

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  Character, Opportunity, Long

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

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