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Linda Cardellini

Linda Cardellini Biography

Actress

Linda Cardellini is an American actress born on June 25, 1975. She has gained widespread popularity for her outstanding performances in various television series and films, particularly for her roles in 'Freaks and Geeks' and 'ER'. Cardellini is known for her natural and sincere acting style, and she has continuously challenged herself in her acting career, trying out different types of roles.

Linda Cardellini is an American actress born on June 25, 1975. She has gained widespread popularity for her outstanding performances in various television series and films, particularly for her roles in 'Freaks and Geeks' and 'ER'. Cardellini is known for her natural and sincere acting style, and she has continuously challenged herself in her acting career, trying out different types of roles.

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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.”

Looks Character Enjoy Voice Change

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Real Stories Home Light Responsibility Right Now Actresses Hardest Our Time Coming Home Pretending Shed Hardest Thing Predicaments

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Thinking Littles Enough Actors Bits Crazy Little Bit Odds Screws

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Trying Moments Happenings Pressure

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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.”

Children Seems Parent Shoes

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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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“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.”

People Fun Uncomfortable Dramatic

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Thinking Character Wife Evolve Girlfriend Complexity

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I've been very lucky to have been chosen for and to have chosen roles that are good. Some are better than others and some projects are better than others, whether it's female or male characters. There's still more that we can do and there's still more stories to be told. I would love to see more female-driven projects in general.”

Character Lucky Female Chosen

Author:Linda Cardellini

“We hurt each other because we care about each other.”

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

War Sometimes Military Duty

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.”

People Thinking Hurt Communicate Things Happen Hiding

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.”

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Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

People Thinking Kind Important Eye

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Kind Generous Insightful

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“I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.”

Switzerland Amsterdam

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“I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.”

Mother Difficult Alive Lucky Daughter Scary My Daughter Pregnancy Delivery Really Scary Lucky To Be Alive

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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.”

Kind Real Wanted Finished Actresses Real Life Take Time Examining

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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.”

Littles Kids Rooms Fronts Brother Performances My Brother Shy My Sister

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.”

Thinking Feels Years School Lost High School School Years

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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.”

Thinking Persons Struggle My Family Our Family

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.”

Thinking Firsts Mom First Time Back To Work

Author:Linda Cardellini

“Before I could talk, I would try to sing.”

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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.”

People Thinking Jokes Catholic Guilt Raised

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Men Energy Community

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“I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Real Feelings Know How Communicate Real Life Deepest Feelings

Author:Linda Cardellini

“The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.”

One Thing Changed

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Knows Character Jobs Actors Episodes

Author:Linda Cardellini

“I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.”

People Ifs Done Careers Fans Meetings Following Gracious Like Something

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Ifs Want Long I Can Different Character Next Diversity Long Time

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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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Author:Linda Cardellini

“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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Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

People Giving Writing Trying I Can Roles One Thing Willing Mercy

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

People Firsts Ideas Realizing Forget No Idea Compliment

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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.”

Hands Kids Watches Study College Needed My Favorite Tunes Cartoon Scooby Doo

Author:Linda Cardellini

“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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Author:Linda Cardellini

About the Author

Born: June 25, 1975
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 36

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