Holly Hunter Quotes

Work is no longer challenging.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

With me and Portland, it wasn't moving anywhere. I wasn't given a bigger role as I played more and more with the club. I felt I could have been utilized in a bigger way.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.

You never know the way your career takes.

NXT is a land of opportunity.

You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they're walking into a dream situation. You don't want money to ever be a factor.

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master's. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master's, I did a course in Film Appreciation.

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

I wanted corporate experience before I joined films.

It's hard to get opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

I think I did experimental roles too early in my career.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

Never find yourself bored at work.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

I know I won't be a manager, I don't want to do it, never.