Top 19 Helen Hunt Quotes

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

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 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.

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

I’ve made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

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.

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.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it’s not just having a daughter, it’s wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I’m not exactly one of the four girls everyone’s chasing at the moment.

I think I have more of a director’s brain than an actor’s brain, in a way.

I’ve been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren’t right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

I usually don’t read things written about me and I certainly don’t read things if they are inappropriate.

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.

It’s very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it’s also good for her. But it’s definitely good for me.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

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

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

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

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