If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
Bonnie Hunt
I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.
I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.
Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.
There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.
If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.
I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
I'm trying to be truthful.
The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
I don't think of myself as a comedian.
When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
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.
I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.
When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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.
I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.
I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.
