I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.
Linda CardelliniI think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.
Linda CardelliniI always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.
Linda CardelliniYes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
Linda CardelliniBeing raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
Linda CardelliniI think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.
Linda Cardellini