- [on being one of seven children] It's great because when you go home you're the person you were in sixth grade!
- [when asked if she ever dated David Letterman] We never dated. We slept together, but we never dated.
- I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
- I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
- If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
- I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
- 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'.
- But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
- Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
- When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
- Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
- Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
- I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.
- I was a good kid.
- I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
- I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
- The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
- Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.
- I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
- I don't write punch lines.
- I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
- I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
- I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
- All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
- Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
- If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
- I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.
- Humor is very healing.
- My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.
- In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
- When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
- When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
- I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
- I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
- The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
- Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
- Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.
- Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
- Carl Reiner is perfection.
- I love writing.
- Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
- I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
- My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen ('Helen Hunt') is her daughter.
- When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.
- If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
- I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
- I'm trying to be truthful.
- I am on the phone with my sisters every day.
- I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.
- I don't think of myself as a comedian.
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