American - Actress | March 20, 1958 -
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
Holly Hunter
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I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.
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People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.
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If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.
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The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.
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There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
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I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.
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I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene.
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I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.
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You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.
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Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.
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I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.
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