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 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
It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your… — 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 can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing. — Holly Hunter Copy Share
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