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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
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. Linda Hunt Read Quote
