Helen Hunt

“The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.”

“I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.”

“I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so ti...”

“I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought i...”

“I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, b...”

“I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where yo...”

“I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.”

“I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I use...”

“I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.”

“We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.”