A biography for Bonnie Hunthasn’t been written yet.
“I'm trying to be truthful.”
“Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.”
“I don't write punch lines.”
“I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.”
“Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.”
“I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.”
“You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.”
“When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.”
“If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.”
“All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.”
“Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?”
“I don't think of myself as a comedian.”
“Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.”
“I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.”
“I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.”
“I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.”
“If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.”
“I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.”
“I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.”
“I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.”