Quotes by Laura Linney

It is always good to explore the stuff you don’t agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn’t know.

I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn’t gone away.

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’ve seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can’t find a home.

History’s a resource.

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.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that’s just in the suitcase when you’re an actor.

Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.

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 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.