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.

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.

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

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

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.

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.

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