I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.
Laura LinneyWhat people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.
Laura LinneyTheater 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.
Laura LinneyFame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney