Top 50 Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I am on the phone with my sisters every day.

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 would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

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.

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.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.

If you’re authentic, people smile because they sense there’s a piece of themselves there.

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 don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it’s not very funny, you don’t dare go to them and say, ‘I don’t like this,’ because it will make your life miserable.

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.

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.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it’s: Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

I don’t think of myself as a comedian.

I’m right on the edge of getting another movie. It’s between me and a famous person. The studio said they’re thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, ‘That’s great! Because I have one!’

I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.

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 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.

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.

Everywhere I go, people think I’m Helen Hunt.

When you’re the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.

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.

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.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Because I’ve been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I’ve learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

I don’t understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don’t get it.

When you fail by your own standards, it’s a form of success.

Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.

Everybody knows when you’re a struggling family; you don’t really know it when you’re a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there’s, like, this happiness.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I’m just happy to get on the air.

Humor is very healing.

I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It’s real hard to draw on something to write.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it’s OK. It’s when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

I keep saying I won’t go back to television, but I do.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

If I couldn’t be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

I don’t write punch lines.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

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.

I loved when my folks would watch ‘The Dean Martin Show.’

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.

I don’t have the fear of my looks changing.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

I don’t have the fear I won’t be able to think of something else to write. It’s what I do.

My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.