Laura Linney Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Actress Born: February 5, 1964

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

Good Personality Heart Good Heart

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

People Look Orange Just

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

Myself Celebrity Star Consider

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.

Good God You Good Times

Doing the right thing has power.

Power Doing Doing The Right Thing

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.

Good Learning You Way

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.

Learning You People Enjoy

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

You Pain Think Your

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

Silence Every Once Crave

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Work Matter Go Want

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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.

Me School Book Teachers

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

Father Stage Actress Up

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.

Day You Sometimes Bag

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

Sexy People Way My Own

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

Good You Just Because Mean

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Death About Honest Thing

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.

Experience Think Unique Person

You have to relish the challenge of television.

You Challenge Television Relish

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

God Me Time Character

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

Me Business Just First

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

People Losing Parent Think

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

Love Work Different I Love

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Me Better I Can Always

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Death Remember Think Way

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

Change Relationship People View

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Cancer Show Bigger Than

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