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" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "
Holly Hunter
Love
Break
Big Break
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" The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "
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" I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction. "
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" I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster. "
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" This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. "
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Act
Because
" 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. "
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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. "
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" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "
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You
Wrong
" If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop. "
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" The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none. "
Holly Hunter
Always
Silent
Career
" 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. "
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You
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Long
" Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution. "
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Been
Power
Man
" I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days. "
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Thought
Friend
City
" 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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Language
Day
Week
" What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith? "
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Know
Believe
Mean
" I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable. "
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Audience
Think
She
" 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
" I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me. "
Holly Hunter
Too
Me
Odd
" 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. "
Holly Hunter
Safety
People
Curiosity
" I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself. "
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Myself
Positive
Strong
" I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age. "
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Age
Used
Struggle
" 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
" 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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Self
Own
Myself
" 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. "
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Playing
Actor
Event
" 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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Thought
Hot
Great
" I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. "
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I Can
Feel
Enjoy
" Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act. "
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Work
Need
Great
" 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
" 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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Listen
Music
" I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in. "
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Mess
Me
New
" It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. "
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Now