Holly Hunter Quotes
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New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.
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The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.
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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
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Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
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I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.
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So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.
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I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.
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I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander.
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People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.
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Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.
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What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
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I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.
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I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once.
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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
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I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks.
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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 don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
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I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.
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I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
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My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.
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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.
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I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.
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The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.
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I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.