Character Quotes by Holly Hunter

8 Character quotes by Holly Hunter

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Holly Hunter’s eight succinct thoughts on character blend an actor’s lived experience with a thoughtful tone. The collection offers a quick, authentic glimpse into how she perceives the makeup of a person.

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There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn.…

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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…

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I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage…

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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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Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series…

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As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

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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…

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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…

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Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

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In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they…

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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…

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The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

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I think that my looks through the years have served me well because I was never a great beauty and I was never cast…

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I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a…

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I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.

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