I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working. Helen Hunt More Quotes by Helen Hunt More Quotes From Helen Hunt I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate. Helen Hunt inappropriate written ifs 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 time is at a premium. Helen Hunt done home kids Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have. Helen Hunt weapons sorrow faces We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons. Helen Hunt imperfect reason way Pity and friendship seek different habitations. Helen Hunt pity different 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. Helen Hunt balls adventure laughing I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. Helen Hunt brain directors thinking 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, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard. Helen Hunt eye years thinking The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. Helen Hunt oscars awards earthquakes But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere. Helen Hunt eight daughter mother Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that. Helen Hunt kids art needs 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. Helen Hunt prayer air night I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses. Helen Hunt actresses daughter mother You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank. Helen Hunt enjoy remember thank-you I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. Helen Hunt daughter nice mother 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 used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird. Helen Hunt stars children school I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away. Helen Hunt whispering taken stories As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it. Helen Hunt writing morning two 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 it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me. Helen Hunt thought me you college I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited. Helen Hunt i-am time life long
