List of Laura Linney Quotes

What I Love About A Play Is That It's Such An Investment Because Only Time Can Create A Lot Of What Happens Onstage.

Theater Is The Foundation Of How I Live My Life, Actually. My Father Was A Playwright, So I Was Around It All The Time And Loved To Talk Shop With Him, Just Loved It. And Basically Everything That I Hold To Be Good And True And Worthy, I Learned In The Theater. So Not Even Just About The Work, But Just About Life. Discipline, Problem Solving, Creativity, How To Get Along With People.

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.

I Know That Actors And Actresses Have A Great Reputation For Being Very, Very Selfish, And In Some Cases, That's Very True. But In The Theater I Find It Doesn't Help You To Be Selfish. You Sort Of Have To Be Selfless In The Theater, And The More Selfless You Are - That Doesn't Mean Don't Take Care Of Yourself - But The More You Sort Of Surrender To The Work, I Find, The Better The Work Is. That's Just My Experience.

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.

It Was So Soon After I'd Had My Son And I Really Wasn't Planning On Going Back To Work For A While. I Will Walk Over Hot Coals To Work With Bill Condon On Anything, The Experience That You Have With Him Is Just Too Good... I've Certainly Never Worked With Him Before So The Trio Of Bill [codon], Ian [mckellen], And Sherlock Holmes, And England: It Was Too Much To Say "no" To.

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.

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.

I Know What People Want To Hear Is The Connection With The Son, Roger, When You Have A Child. I Would Love To Tell That There Was An Epiphany As To What It Is To Be A Mom, But I Didn't Feel Any Difference There.

Tanning Is Tricky, Because A Lot Of People Just Look Orange.

My Parents Were Divorced And I Didn't Grow Up With My Father, But I Spent A Lot Of Time Around Him, And His Influence On Me Has Been Profound.

Courtroom Dramas Can Be Boring.