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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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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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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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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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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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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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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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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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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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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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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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That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.
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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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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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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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To be too knowing is a downfall.
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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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Ask why until there is no more why.
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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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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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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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