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

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.

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

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.

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Prose lies its way to the truth

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?