173 Quotes by Laura Linney

I certainly didn’t have a nanny.

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.

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’m very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They’re not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don’t write for actors. They don’t understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn’t interested.

I love 70's music.

Working with special needs children is hard.

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