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Ask why until there is no more why.

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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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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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To be too knowing is a downfall.
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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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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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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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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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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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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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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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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'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.
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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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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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Some big movies are terrific, and some aren't. They're made for different reasons, and they have different impacts and they're very different experiences making them. But if they're good, if you're with good people, then hooray.
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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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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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