#you

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#courage #easily #empathy #find #humility

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #challenged #different #end #explore

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously. ↗

— Laura Linney

#appreciate #around #breath #come #deep

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

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#fight #instinctive #life #relationships #threatened

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

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. ↗

— Laura Linney

#anxiety #fear #just #neurosis #suitcase

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. ↗

— Laura Linney

#believe #communication #discipline #else #everything

I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. ↗

— Laura Linney

#being #disgusting #get #happen #human

I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. ↗

— Laura Linney

#gregarious #i #know #known #loud