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" I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. "

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" 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. "

Holly Hunter

Been

Power

Man

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

" I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

Holly Hunter

Great

Almost

" I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress. "

Holly Hunter

People

Performance

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

" 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 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. "

" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. "

" People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim. "

" My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you. "

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

" Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions. "

Holly Hunter

Thought

Decisions

" I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me. "

" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "

Holly Hunter

Know

Place

" I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm. "

" Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary. "

" I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. "