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“I was a good kid.”
“If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.”
“I wanted to be a story teller so badly.”
“I'm from an Irish Catholic family.”
“My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.”
“I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.”
“Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.”
“The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.”
“I am on the phone with my sisters every day.”
“When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.”
“I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.”
“When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.”
“When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.”
“My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.”
“I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'”
“I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.”
“But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.”
“I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.”
“I don't have the fear of my looks changing.”
“When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.”