Laura Linney movie quotes

“Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy pretending to be listening to hear what I'm saying.”
Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“- Meryl Burbank: Why don't you let me fix you some of this Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners.
- Truman Burbank: What the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to?
- Meryl Burbank: I've tasted other cocoas. This is the best.”

Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank

“People said their marriage was troubled and unhappy. That they lived mostly separate lives. But I never saw that. That's not how they seemed when they were together.”

Laura Linney - Daisy

“When you kill someone, you rob their family - not just of a loved one, but of their humanity. You harden their hearts with hate, you take away their capacity for civilized dispassion, you condemn them to bloodlust.”
Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“- Rebecca Vincent: What are you, superheroes?
- Raphael: Just four brothers who hate bullies, and love this city!”
Laura Linney - Chief Vincent
Alan Ritchson - Raphael

“Roger: The queen runs the colony. Drones service the queen. The workers do the work.
Mrs. Munro: Isn't it true...”

Milo Parker - Roger
Laura Linney - Mrs. Munro

“No more promises were made so none could be broken.”
Laura Linney - Daisy

“- Meryl Burbank: You let me out, Truman. You're not right in the head. You want to destroy yourself you do it on your own.
- Truman Burbank: I think I'd like a little company.”

Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank

“A king knows what to do and does it. Even when it's hard.”
Laura Linney - Annabeth Markum

“We all eventually turn into our mothers.”
Laura Linney - Anne Sutton

“- Sammy: I don't know what the Church's official position is on fornication and adultery these days, and I felt really hypocritical not saying anything to you about it before, but... what is the official position these days?
- Ron: Well... it's a sin.
- Sammy: Good, I think it should be!”
Laura Linney - Sammy
Kenneth Lonergan - Ron

“Do you know what it's like to be the only kid in the first grade who got to talk about visiting day?”
Laura Linney - Kate Whitney

“You know, I admit I may not be the best mother in the world, but I'm doing the best I know how, and he doesn't need you to rub his face in shit because you think it's good for him! He's gonna find out that the world is a horrible place and that people suck soon enough and without any help from you!”

Laura Linney - Sammy

“If I were you I'd be a little nervous about firing an employee I'd just had an affair with, okay?”

Laura Linney - Sammy

“In a time, not so very long ago, when the world still allowed itself secrets, Franklin Roosevelt was mine.”
Laura Linney - Daisy

“A civilized society must live with a hard truth: he who seeks revenge digs two graves.”

Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“Doing the right thing has power.”
Laura Linney

“A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.”
Laura Linney

“Half-fed slaves building our nation's Capitol. What possible good can come from such a place?”
Laura Linney - Abigail Adams

“Crazy people don't know they're crazy.”
Laura Linney - Erin Bruner

“Back then I couldn't afford secrets. I just had chores. As a child growing up, we had been rich. And then, well, we weren't. And like most people during the Depression, I now lived each day as it came no longer expecting anything. Waiting for nothing.”

Laura Linney - Daisy

- John Klein: You know, when Mary got sick, I couldn't help thinking: "This isn't real. I can stop this. I know I can. I can stop this".
- Connie Mills: No one can stop it, John. Listen to me. Planes are gonna crash. Earthquakes are going to happen. People you know and love are going to die. And no matter what that voice tells you, there's... (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Tiffany Gere - John Klein
Laura Linney - Connie Mills

“- Meryl Burbank: We have mortgage payments, Truman. We have car payments. What, we're going to just walk away from our financial obligations?
- Truman Burbank: It would be an adventure!
- Meryl Burbank: I thought we were gonna try for a baby. Isn't that enough of an adventure?”
Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank

“You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.”
Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“- Kate Whitney: He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.
- Seth Frank: You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?
- Kate Whitney: I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.”

Laura Linney - Kate Whitney
Ed Harris - Seth Frank