Holly Hunter

Actress

1958-03-20

Holly Hunter is an American actress known for intense performances in film and television. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Piano and received multiple additional Oscar nominations. Her major work spans drama and comedy across film and serialized television.

Quotes by Holly Hunter

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.
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I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.
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I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
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I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.
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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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In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.
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I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
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After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.
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I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.
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I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational.
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