Linda Haynes (born November 4, 1947) is an American actress who appeared in several films in the 1970s and early 1980s before retiring from the business and becoming a legal secretary. A life member of The Actors Studio, Haynes is best known for her roles in Coffy, The Nickel Ride, Rolling Thunder, The Drowning Pool, Human Experiments, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, and Brubaker.
[on why she quit acting in the early 1980's] I didn't like the path that I was going down. I had acted for about 15 years, and there was a lot of booze and drugs around. I wanted to have a baby; I didn't want to go on like that.
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[reflecting on her acting career] I'm really pleased. I couldn't believe that people would have any interest and then things coming out on Blu-ray. And now there are reviews of performances given, of the movies and so on. That's really cool that that would happen. It's another lifetime. I mean I quite acting in '80 - 1981. So I find that amazing and I'm honored and flattered that they would remember [me].
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I love the craft -- the art of acting.
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[on being frequently cast as women who are devoted to the men in their lives] Yeah, right, that was kind of a thread through my career, playing a girlfriend or whatever, or a wife. And I guess that's how they saw me and cast me. Today, were I to do that many years later I would be cast differently, I would think. You know that's how it was then and I just simply took what was offered. There were a few refusals. There were a few things I didn't want to do.
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[on Tommy Lee Jones] Super nice guy. He's super smart. My sister came to San Antonio so after working hours were over we able to talk as friends, etc. They were really super nice normal people. He certainly got to be a colossal star.
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