Laura Linney Quotes

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff.

I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

Working with Ricky Gervais one week, Rutger Hauer another week, John Stamos, was fantastic.

I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.