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Laura Linney
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 5
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Laura Leggett Linney
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Thing

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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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Ask why until there is no more why.
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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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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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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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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.
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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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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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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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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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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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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.
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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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We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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