Bonnie Hunt Quotes

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Bonnie Hunt

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 22, 1961

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

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There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

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There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.

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I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.

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My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.

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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.

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I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.

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Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

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Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.

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When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

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I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

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I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.

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You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

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What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

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Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

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I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

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