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" I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally. "

Holly Hunter

Talent

Friend

" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "

" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. "

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one. "

" 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. "

" Pixar has the integrity to not rush. "

" '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. "

" What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts. "

" It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. "

Holly Hunter

Women

Now

" What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast. "

" 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. "

Holly Hunter

Mess

New

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in. "

" I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. "

" 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. "

" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "

" Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying. "

" 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. "

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

Holly Hunter

Always

Distance

" It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it. "

" Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting. "

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

" Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role. "