Holly Hunter Quotes

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.

When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

It's not easy to change the way you play when you are 30.

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.