Linda Hunt Quotes

United States, Actor
April 2, 1945

Lydia Susanna Hunt (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex.

Also known as Stage Actor, Television Actor, Film Actor, Voice Actor

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

Linda Hunt
- Action
- Star
I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt
- Up
- Growing
- Teen
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

Linda Hunt
- Up
- Growing
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Linda Hunt
I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

Linda Hunt
- People
- Up
- Great
It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

Linda Hunt
- Good
- Home
- Parents
When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

Linda Hunt

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

Linda Hunt
- People
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Linda Hunt
- People
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Linda Hunt
What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

Linda Hunt
- Up
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

Linda Hunt
- Power
- Pretty
- Beautiful