Laura Linney

To be too knowing is a downfall.

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To be too knowing is a downfall.

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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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Working with special needs children is hard.

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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

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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.

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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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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

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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.

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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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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

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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.

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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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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.

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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

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Quotes by Laura Linney