I think that my looks through the years have served me well because I was never a great beauty and I was never cast as a great beauty. My looks were not part of my transportation - certainly not in the typical leading lady role - so I never leaned on it and I never really made that a high value.
Holly HunterI've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal
Holly HunterThe rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
Holly HunterIn storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.
Holly HunterMore and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation
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