192 Quotes by Holly Hunter

I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.

Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.

'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

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

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.