“Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which ...” — Laura Linney Quote

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

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.

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!

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

We tried our best to work with the school and with the other families in the school system, and we did a gradual transition. I started transitioning when I was in first grade, and every year we kind of tacked a new thing on to it.