Quotes from Helen Hunt

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

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 do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

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

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

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.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

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

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