“I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my ...” — Holly Hunter Quote

I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks.

There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

Privacy is paradise.

There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.

I am as attached to my career as a producer as I was to my career as an actress.

If you look at my generation, there are some pretty amazing actresses.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.