Quotes by Helen Hunt

About Helen Hunt:

Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, and played single mother Carol Connelly in the 1997 romantic comedy film As Good as It Gets, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other notable films include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want, Pay It Forward, and The Sessions. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me. In addition to her Oscar, Hunt has won four Emmy awards, four Golden Globe awards, and two Screen Actors Guild awards.
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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 h...

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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.

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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, th...

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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.

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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...

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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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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 ...

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When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

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You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

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I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameHelen Hunt
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornJune 15, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Film Director
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress