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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

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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
Cancer
Bigger
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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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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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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.
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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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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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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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Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.
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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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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'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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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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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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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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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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To be too knowing is a downfall.
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