I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

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.

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

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

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.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

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

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?

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.

The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die. I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

He has a plan for everybody here and it's all a matter of whether you answer it when He calls you.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!