There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn.… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage… — 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
Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series… — 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
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… — 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
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
