Top 11 Linda Hunt Quotes

Though I had hoped to return to playing Hetty at the start of the season, I had to take some additional time to recover. I look forward to returning later this season.

It was bigger than life. In some sense, I longed to be bigger than life, because I wasn’t.

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.

I was so lucky my parents were encouraging on every level.

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.

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.

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.

They tease me about the Oscar, about having won the Oscar. But sweetly!

I do like it. I get a kick out of it!

Power is one thing if you have a very rigid sense of morality backing it up. It’s very hard to put the source of one’s power into that role, it’s like choosing to put the positive piece of yourself into something you feel is not right.

I’m not a consciously political person, I suppose, except in a psychological sense, in an emotional sense. I understand very little of politics in terms of governments and foreign policy and so my response to them, and to the play, was intuitive and not intellectual.