Laura Linney Quotes

With death comes honesty.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

I am just trying to keep it real.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

I'm very real, very sincere and honest, and that's how I'll always be.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

You're authentic when you're honest.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.