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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much. "

" It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two. "

" 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. "

Holly Hunter

Looking

Love

" The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects. "

" I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity. "

Holly Hunter

God

World

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

" With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life. "

Holly Hunter

My Life

Lost

" People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress. "

" Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer. "

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

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

Holly Hunter

Women

Now

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

" Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have. "

Holly Hunter

Live

Movies

" 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. "

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

Holly Hunter

Too

Odd

" Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person. "

" I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work. "