Linda Cardellini Quotes
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I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.
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Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting a way of life that they sometimes come back to and it's not close to them.
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I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.
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Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
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You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.
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I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.
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People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.
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I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.
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I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.
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I think there are great roles for women in television because there is time to allow those characters to evolve. Even if you're the wife or the girlfriend or whatever it is that we women are, playing those things on TV, they are much more drawn out and there are greater arcs for the role. The roles are more integral to the complexity of the story.
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One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.
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You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.
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When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.
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One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
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I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.
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We hurt each other because we care about each other.
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People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.
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I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.
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I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.
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Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.
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After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
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The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.
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Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.
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There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.
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Before I could talk, I would try to sing.
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I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.
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I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.
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I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.
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Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
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I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
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