American - Actress | March 20, 1958 -
There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.
Holly Hunter
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I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.
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In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.
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After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.
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I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.
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My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.
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I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.
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This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.
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I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.
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New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.
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I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once.
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