Linda Hunt Quotes

• The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

  Linda Hunt

  World, Fit, Alterations

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• 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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  Thinking, People, Underdog

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• 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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  Always Trying, People, Size

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• 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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  Men, Spirit, Embrace

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• I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

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  Sophisticated

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• 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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  Growing Up, Teenage, Years

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• I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Kids, Acting

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• 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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  Growing Up, Care, Fifth Grade

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• 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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  Opposites, Lucky, Schwarzenegger

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• 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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  Beautiful, Ideas, Actors

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

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  People, Casting, Authority

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• 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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  Home, Winning, Worry

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

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  Like Me

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• 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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  New York, Ideas, Stupidity

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• 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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  Stars, Choices, Actresses

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