American - Actress | September 22, 1961 -
I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
Bonnie Hunt
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Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.
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I was a good kid.
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I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
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I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
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I don't write punch lines.
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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
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I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.
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If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
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Humor is very healing.
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In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
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