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It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.Collection: Holly
I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.Collection: Holly
I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in.Collection: Holly
The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.Collection: Holly
What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.Collection: Holly
I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.Collection: Holly
A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.Collection: Holly
I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.Collection: Holly
My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation.Collection: Holly
What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.Collection: Holly
Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.Collection: Holly
Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.Collection: Holly
People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.Collection: Holly
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
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?Collection: Holly
Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'Collection: Holly
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.Collection: Holly
There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.Collection: Holly
I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.Collection: Holly
I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene.Collection: Holly
I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.Collection: Holly
I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.Collection: Holly
There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.Collection: Holly
After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.Collection: Holly
I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.Collection: Holly
My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.Collection: Holly
I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.Collection: Holly
I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.Collection: Holly
This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.Collection: Holly
The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.Collection: Holly
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once.Collection: Holly
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.Collection: Holly
I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool.Collection: Holly
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.Collection: Holly
I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.Collection: Holly