You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile b... by Laura Linney

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

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When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

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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!

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

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

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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.

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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see... by Laura Linney

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

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

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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.

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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

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Some big movies are terrific, and some aren't. They're made for different reasons, and they have different impacts and they're very different experiences making them. But if they're good, if you're with good people, then hooray.

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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

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Ask "why" until there is no more "why." by Laura Linney

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

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

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Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people.

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Courtroom dramas can be boring. by Laura Linney

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

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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.

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But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

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I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the... by Laura Linney

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

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I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself... by Laura Linney

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

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

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