Laura Linney

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

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

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'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.