Laura Linney

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

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.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

You have to relish the challenge of television.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.