Quotes by Laura Linney

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

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

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.

History's a resource.

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

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.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

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.

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