Linda Hunt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The world is what you make of it, friend.Â If it doesnâ€™t fit, you make alterations.”
-- Linda Hunt

#World #Fit
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Thinking #People #Underdog
“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?”
-- Linda Hunt

#New York #Ideas #Stupidity
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Growing Up #Care #Fifth Grade
“When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.”
-- Linda Hunt
“What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!”
-- Linda Hunt

#Opposites #Lucky #Schwarzenegger
“People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.”
-- Linda Hunt

#People #Casting #Authority
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Home #Winning #Worry
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Stars #Choices #Actresses
“I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Sophisticated
“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
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#People #Trying #Way
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Men #Spirit #Embrace
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Teenage #Growing Up #Years
“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.”
-- Linda Hunt

#Beautiful #Ideas #Actors

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