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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.

- Holly Hunter

City, Thought, Moved, August

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

- Holly Hunter

Doing, Study, University, Conservatory

It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?

- Holly Hunter

Mirror, Soul, Play, Fantastic

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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Some, Very, Largest, Another Way

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

- Holly Hunter

Love, Life, Beautiful People, Narrow

I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.

- Holly Hunter

Her, Find, Fan, Poisonous

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

- Holly Hunter

Woman, Movie, Maybe, Logistics

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.

- Holly Hunter

Always, Private, Impressive, Philip

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.

- Holly Hunter

Play, I Think, Nine, Chops

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

- Holly Hunter

Night, Play, Go, Chops

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

- Holly Hunter

Curiosity, Want, Literally, Older People

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

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Extraordinary, Very, Even, Ordinary People

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

- Holly Hunter

Love, Fiction, Rather, Fictional

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.

- Holly Hunter

Movie, About, Personal Information

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

- Holly Hunter

Never, Must, Directed, Humbling

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.

- Holly Hunter

Think, Audience, Feels, Kazan

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

- Holly Hunter

Back, Gods, About, Goddesses

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.

- Holly Hunter

My Life, Away, Cancel, Eccentricity

Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role.

- Holly Hunter

Role, Like, Before, Haunted

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

- Holly Hunter

Die, Go, Going, Stricken

I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.

- Holly Hunter

Limitation, Southern, South, Perceptions

It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two.

- Holly Hunter

Career, Your, Considered, Cutting-Edge

There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

- Holly Hunter

Career, Through, Very, Young Actors

You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.

- Holly Hunter

Career, Through, Very, Young Actors

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no.

- Holly Hunter

Concerned, Whole, Would, Claim

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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Think, I Think, Solving, Parse

In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday.

- Holly Hunter

Choose, I See, Obligations, Friday

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

- Holly Hunter

Movies, Never, Characters, Ramifications

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

- Holly Hunter

Very, Films, Feature Films, All Year

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.

- Holly Hunter

Sometimes, Always, About, Supporting

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