Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance.… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me.… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
