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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
- All My Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
- Classy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
- Punch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write punch lines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
- Dyke
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is very healing.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
- Disappointing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
- Nov 07, 2020
Carl Reiner is perfection.
- Great Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a fan holds out Helen's picture for me to autograph, I usually sign it Linda Hunt - just to make their heads really crazy.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
- Truthful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to be truthful.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as a comedian.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am on the phone with my sisters every day.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
- Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the fear of my looks changing.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.
- Nov 07, 2020
To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020