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Laura Linney Biography

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. She has also been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards.

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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.

Teacher, Book, Writing, School, Teachers, Con

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

Actresses, Father, Manhattan, Stage

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.

Actor, Actors, Force, Script, Scripts, World

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.

Curious, Learn, Learning, Places, Things, Thought

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

Bags, Carry, Hard, Stuff, Tend

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

Conjecture, Differently, Know, Situation, Things, Thinking

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.

Disease, Experience, Give, Giving, Thinking, Unique

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Chaos, Comedy, Threaten, Truth, Way

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

Bits, Fall, Iraq, People, Shocking

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Lows, Make, Money, More Money, Yeah

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

Different, Everybody, Learning, Matter, People, Seeing

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

Cone, Cones, Crave, Silence

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

Cold, Travel

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

Nannies, Nanny

You have a lot more to give, the older you get. And you want to give it. I mean, some people want to give it. But there is a desire to pass down, to have a hand in the past and a hand in the future. There's a continuum.

Future, Mean, Older, Past, People

Doing the right thing has power.

Doing The Right Thing, Power, Right, Right Thing, Thing

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Business, Business First, Firsts, Goal, Times

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

Everything, Experience, Good, Jobs, Law, Responsibility

I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

Bad Day, Children, Differences, Skin, Stuff, Worry

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

Approach, Boredom, Lazy, Learn, Thinking, Way

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