Quotes by Helen Hunt - Page 1

A small step in a good direction.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Leadership
Small Steps
Steps
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Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Joy
Sorrow
Tattoo
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Pity and friendship seek different habitations.
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Different
Pity
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I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Daughter
Actresses
Mother
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Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Art
Kids
Needs
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Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Heart
People
Selfish
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Helen Hunt / Actress
Pain
Stars
Writing
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I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.
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Brain
Directors
Thinking
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Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.
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Blanket
Loser
Sore Losers
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You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Thank You
Enjoy
Five
Remember
Seconds
Thank
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We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Inspirational
Women
Heart
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I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Embarrassed
Thinking
Want
Years
Schoolyard
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When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Beauty
Firsts
Good As It Gets
Handsome
Entered
Restaurant
Spoke
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I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Challenges
Complicated
Subjects
Precious
Subject
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We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Disabled
Imperfect
Reason
Way
Reasons
Various Reasons
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I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Personal Life
Life Great Mom
Fully
Inhabited
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I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Ifs
Inappropriate
Written
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I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Combination
Introvert
Thinking
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You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Baby
Ifs
Want
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It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Healing
Hope Good Me
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The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Autumn
Land
Purple
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The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Academy
Awards
Earthquakes
Oscars
Above
Academy Award
Award
Desk
Earthquake
Oscar
Shelf
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O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Clouds
Flower
June
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The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Heart
May
Secret
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The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
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Arguing
Dinner
Exploring
People
Thesis
Best Movies People
Afterwards
Sentence
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All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.
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Air
Night
Prayer
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I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Adventure
Balls
Brilliant
Christine
Julia
Laughing
Loud
Adventures
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I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Choices
Showing Up
Showing
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I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.
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Long Time
Time Me Long
Offered
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I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Chasing
Life Moment My Life
Factor
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As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
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Morning
Two
Writing
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I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Feelings
Parent
People
Quiet
Myself Me Parents
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I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Stories
Taken
Whispering
Jewish
Quarter
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I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Daughter
Love You
Mother
Your Body
Love Food Your
Love Food Body
Bite
To Love
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But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Daughter
Eight
Mother
Motherhood
Truth Is
Anywhere
Early Years
Visit
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I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.
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Personal Life
Real Life
Life Time I Am
Out Here
Visited
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I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Kids
Home
Done
Premium
Time Home Feel
Time Home Done
Watched
Desmond
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If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.
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People
Real
Unattractive
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I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.
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Embarrassed
Eye
Hard Things
Public Eye
Thinking
Truth Is
Years
Life Truth People
Life Truth My Life
People Say
Schoolyard
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I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.
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Philosophy
Semester
Me Know Everything
Alley
Dismantling
Per
Regretting
Studying
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It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
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Artist
Be Brave
Brave
Hotel
Late
Naked
Small Things
Too Late
Fade
Fully
Small
Hotel Room
Room
Trivial
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It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
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Artist
Brave
Nice
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Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Daughter
Travel
Acting
Being Yourself
Great Job
Mother
Twenties
Life Great Yourself
Affairs
Be Yourself
Gets
Older
Throw
Wanting
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I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.
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Daughter
Alive
Flow
Mother
Nice
Ten
Thousand
Life Love Work
Life Love Truth
Ebb
Minute
Nominated
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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
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Faces
Sorrow
Weapons
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I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird.
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Childhood
Children
School
Stars
Adult
Movie Set
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I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.
Helen Hunt / Actress
Daughter
Kids
Dying
Mother
Parent
Theater
Adult
Spot
Improvisational
Movie Set
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