Bonnie Hunt Quotes
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Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
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I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.
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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
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Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.
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There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
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If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
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Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
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I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
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I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
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I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
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I don't write punch lines.
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When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
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There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
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I'm trying to be truthful.
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I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.
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Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
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To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
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When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.