Linda Hunt Quotes

#1. Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

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#2. I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

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#3. I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

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#4. I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

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#5. When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

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#6. It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

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#7. I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

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#8. For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

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#9. People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

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#10. What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

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#11. The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.

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#12. I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

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#13. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

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#14. When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

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