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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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I love working closely with people.
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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 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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I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.
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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'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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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 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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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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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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 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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