Helen Hunt Quotes

I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet.

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that's why I did it. If I hadn't, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

I think there's something to be said for being at home with your family and having all the things you like around you. I think my kids would say the same.

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

I'm afraid to miss out on the important events in my families' lives or that something might happen to them or myself, and I won't be there for them.

I always felt like I had stability, doing things with my dad and living with my mum.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

I get a lot of tattoos for people in my family. Some of my friends I have tattoos for, some of my religious beliefs, things that represent me in different times of my life. They kind of tell a story. I like them.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

My dad would be down at the social club and my mum would be looking after us. Their time out together was limited to birthdays and, particularly being Scottish, to Hogmanay and Christmas.