Helen Hunt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.”
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“If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.”
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“When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.”
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“O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.”
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“I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.”
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“I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.”
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“The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.”
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“The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.”
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“Pity and friendship seek different habitations.”
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“I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.”
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“Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.”
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“It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.”
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“Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.”
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“I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.”
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“Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.”
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“You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.”
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“The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.”
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“But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.”
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“I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.”
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“Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.”
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“The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”
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“I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.”
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“All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.”
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“As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.”
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“Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.”
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“I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.”
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“Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!”
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“We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.”
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“I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.”
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