Quotes from Bonnie Hunt

I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.

I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

I am on the phone with my sisters every day.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.