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.

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!

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.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.