Bonnie Hunt Quotes
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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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If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
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I love writing.
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I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
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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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I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
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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 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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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 thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
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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 keep saying I won't go back to television, but 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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Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
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I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
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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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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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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!'
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Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
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When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
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I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.
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If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
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I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.
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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.