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" I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "

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" There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain. "

Holly Hunter

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Women

Than

" 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. "

Holly Hunter

Love

Lie

" 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. "

" Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness. "

" I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features. "

" I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene. "

Holly Hunter

Advice

Never

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with. "

" Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.' "

" I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since. "

" I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so. "

" 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. "

" After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC. "

" Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day. "

" I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city. "

" I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person. "

" Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it. "

Holly Hunter

Most

Way

" I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes. "

" A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle. "

" The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about. "

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

Holly Hunter

Always

Distance

" It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo. "

Holly Hunter

Great

Almost

" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. "

" I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person. "

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

" The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all. "

" I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander. "

" I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. "

" Privacy is paradise. "

Holly Hunter

Privacy

Paradise