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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'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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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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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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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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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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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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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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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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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That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.
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I love working closely with people.
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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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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.
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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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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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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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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.
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