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

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.

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.

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

Greatness comes with discipline.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.