Holly Hunter Quotes
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Pixar has the integrity to not rush.
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I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.
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There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.
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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.
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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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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.
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Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.
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I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.
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If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.
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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.
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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.
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More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
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There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
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Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
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Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
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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.
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.
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This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.
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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.
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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.
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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.
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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.
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Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.