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 would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.