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" 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. "

Holly Hunter

Change

Minds

News

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" My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me. "

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Kind

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays. "

" I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather. "

" 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 to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me. "

Holly Hunter

Beautiful

Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Holly Hunter

Always

Distance

" Pixar has the integrity to not rush. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "

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

" New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades. "

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

" My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation. "

" So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that. "

" I reveal all of myself. 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. "

Holly Hunter

You

My Own

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving. "

" 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 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. "