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

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

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

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

- Linda Hunt

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

- 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 can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

- Linda Hunt

I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make …

- Linda Hunt