Bonnie Hunt Quotes
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Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
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If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
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I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
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If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
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I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
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I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It's real hard to draw on something to write.
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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
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I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
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I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
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My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
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Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
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I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
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Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
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I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
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Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
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When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
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If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
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The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
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I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.
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I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'