Top 35 Helen Hunt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A small step in a good direction.”

— Helen Hunt

2. “Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can’t pull it off.”

— Helen Hunt

3. “I think I’m a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.”

— Helen Hunt

4. “I know you’re always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I’m having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter’s life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I’m not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.”

— Helen Hunt

5. “The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”

— Helen Hunt

6. “O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.”

— Helen Hunt

7. “You either have a baby, want a baby, or don’t want a baby, but you don’t nothing a baby if you’re in your 30s or 40s.”

— Helen Hunt

8. “If there’s a message, it’s that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they’re not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.”

— Helen Hunt

9. “I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s show ‘The New Adventures of Old Christine.’ That made me laugh out loud. She’s like Lucille Ball. She’s brilliant.”

— Helen Hunt

10. “It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.”

— Helen Hunt

11. “The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.”

— Helen Hunt

12. “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.”

— Helen Hunt

13. “Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!”

— Helen Hunt

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

— Helen Hunt

15. “All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.”

— Helen Hunt

16. “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.”

— Helen Hunt

17. “I’ve always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.”

— Helen Hunt

18. “Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.”

— Helen Hunt

19. “The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.”

— Helen Hunt

20. “Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman’s face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.”

— Helen Hunt

21. “I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don’t want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I’ve gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it’s just hard.”

— Helen Hunt

22. “The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.”

— Helen Hunt

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

— Helen Hunt

24. “I haven’t watched anything I’ve been in since I’ve done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I’ve been in. Why? I don’t know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.”

— Helen Hunt

25. “I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I’m whispering it, because I’m a quarter Jewish and afraid it’s all going to be taken away.”

— Helen Hunt

26. “You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn’t thank.”

— Helen Hunt

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

— Helen Hunt

28. “But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It’s not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she’s eight, and I’m still not going to go anywhere.”

— Helen Hunt

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

— Helen Hunt

30. “Pity and friendship seek different habitations.”

— Helen Hunt

31. “We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It’s hard to be looked at for various reasons.”

— Helen Hunt

32. “As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.”

— Helen Hunt

33. “I think I have more of a director’s brain than an actor’s brain, in a way.”

— Helen Hunt

34. “I usually don’t read things written about me and I certainly don’t read things if they are inappropriate.”

— Helen Hunt

35. “I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.”

— Helen Hunt