Top 83 Quotes by Laura Linney

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

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

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.