Helen Hunt Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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