Linda Hunt Quotes

• For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn’t beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn’t an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

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• For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it’s hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

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• Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

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• When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

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• I was a very determined kid. I couldn’t imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.

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• When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

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• What’s it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I’m lucky, come up to his navel!

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• People are always casting me for what they call my ‘authority.’

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• It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn’t have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

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• I have a surfboard that says ‘Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.’ I am an action star! I don’t know what that is about, but I like it.

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• I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

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• I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

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• I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don’t come along every day.

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• I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I’m a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

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Linda Hunt (14)

Birth:	2nd April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Lydia Susanna Hunter, better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage and television actress currently known for her role as Henrietta Lange in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye, Hunt portrayed the male character Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance, in The Year of Living Dangerously. Her role as Billy Kwan earned her an Academy Award, an Australian Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe nomination and various other awards.

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