Linda Hunt Quotes

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.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

  Wale
  • Know
  • Like
  • Person

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Single
  • Kind
  • Prejudice

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Three

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Experience
  • College
  • Road

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Feeling
  • Film
  • Explore

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Light
  • Should
  • Normal

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Attention
  • Win

• You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Cool
  • Cold

• Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• 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