Holly Hunter Quotes

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.

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• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  

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• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

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• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

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• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

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• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

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• If everything is the same, nothing is special.

  

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• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

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• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

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• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

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• New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

  

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• I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

  

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• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

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• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

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• All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

  

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• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

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• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

  

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• Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

  

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• We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, ‘No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman’s belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman’.

  

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• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  

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• 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.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Money
  • Movie