I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of st…

- Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teena…

- Linda Hunt

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was alwa…

- Linda Hunt

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

- Linda Hunt

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

- Linda Hunt

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

- Linda Hunt

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

- Linda Hunt

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

- Linda Hunt

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

- Linda Hunt