Laura Linney Quotes

You have to relish the challenge of television.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It’s easy to become indulgent. For me, what’s important is the story first.

Working with special needs children is hard.

What I love about a play is that it’s such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

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.

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.