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" Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want. "

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" I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story. "

Holly Hunter

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" Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary. "

" When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that. "

" I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me. "

Holly Hunter

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" As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know. "

" 'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over. "

" I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable. "

" Pixar has the integrity to not rush. "

" I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do. "

" Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. "

" I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. "

" I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm. "

" I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient. "

" To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that. "

Holly Hunter

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Environment

" It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star. "

" For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics. "

" I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress. "

" I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. "

" My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation. "

" I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it. "

" There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving. "

" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "

Holly Hunter

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Place

" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "

" Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "

" In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday. "

" With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there. "

" As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. "

Holly Hunter

Always

Distance

" There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. "