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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth. ↗

— Laura Linney

#closer #comedy #dealing #get #make

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with. ↗

— Laura Linney

#deal #easier #fame #gradual #happen

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. ↗

— Laura Linney

#consider #i #myself #star

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#bad guy #charming #guy #playing #suddenly

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#about #am #because #go #i

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade! ↗

— Laura Linney

#bad #being #decade #feeling #i

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. ↗

— Laura Linney

#east side #grew #i #manhattan #side

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. ↗

— Laura Linney

#dread #i #i think #idea #inconceivable

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother