Quotes from Holly Hunter

I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.

Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.

My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.