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?

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

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

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.

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.

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