Zitat des Tages von Laura Linney:
My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
History's a resource.
I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
You have to relish the challenge of television.
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Doing the right thing has power.
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.
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.
If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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.
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
I love 70's music.
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
I certainly didn't have a nanny.