A biography for Laura Linneyhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!”
“I love 70's music.”
“I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.”
“I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.”
“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.”
“Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.”
“My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.”
“I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.”
“The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.”
“What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.”
“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.”
“Doing the right thing has power.”
“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.”
“I don't think you should exploit your own pain.”
“I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.”
“Working with special needs children is hard.”
“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.”