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" 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. "
Holly Hunter
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" I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress. "
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Love
Me
" In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing. "
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Week
" People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress. "
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Dream
Here
" Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name. "
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People
Name
" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "
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Break
Big Break
" I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. "
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Career
Way
" Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage. "
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Week
Place
" What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions. "
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Decisions
Me
" I've never directed, but it must be humbling. "
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Humbling
Directed
" I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self. "
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Own
Myself
" 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. "
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You
Stay
Life
" This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that. "
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Like
People
" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "
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Time
You
Wrong
" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "
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Tennis
Good
Know
" I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather. "
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Understand
Why
People
" I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it. "
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Doing
High School
Loved
" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "
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Disappear
Act
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" 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. "
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Need
Me
Environment
" Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying. "
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Very
Else
Paying
" The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none. "
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Always
Silent
Career
" I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat. "
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More
Love
Lie
" I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it. "
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Flight
Ending
Again
" In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends. "
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Great
Friends
Life
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "
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Opportunity
" '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. "
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Take
Grace
Over
" 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. "
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Great
Heart
Story
" When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do. "
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Together
Listen
Music
" I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.' "
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Hot
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