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

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.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

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.

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.

For truth is always strange

They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.