The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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 never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work.… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the… — 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'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
You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the… — 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
