Helen Hunt Quotes

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

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

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.

It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

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

A small step in a good direction.

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

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

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 you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.