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.

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

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.

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.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.