Holly Hunter movie quotes

“It's not the dress... it's the way you see me.”

Holly Hunter - Dorinda Durston

“- Everett: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?
- Penny: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains.”
George Clooney - Everett
Holly Hunter - Penny

“It's amazing, isn't it? The things you find yourself agreeing to?”
Holly Hunter - Judith Moore

“He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy that looks like I won him in a raffle.”

Holly Hunter - Dorinda Durston

“Awful, awful, what do they expect us to do with all this information? What am I suppose to do about crack babies? Terrorism? I can't stand those terrorists, they're so mad at everybody, I wish they'd just get over it! Maybe I should adopt a crack baby, sent it to a good school, get a chance of... Oh shut up! I'm gonna raise an inner city child...” (continue)(continue reading)
Holly Hunter - Judith Moore

“- M.J. Monahan: Nobody in this department has ever worked a serial case before.
- Lt. Quinn: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I have.
- M.J. Monahan: The Zodiac, right?
- Lt. Quinn: That's right.
- M.J. Monahan: Did anyone ever catch the Zodiac, sir, or did he die of old age?”

Holly Hunter - M.J. Monahan
J.E. Freeman - Lt. Quinn

“- Lt. Quinn: The Hudson broad...
- M.J. Monahan: What about her?
- Lt. Quinn: The commissioner thinks, and I agree with him on this, that's she's leakin' like a rusty bucket. Maybe she's trying to hype her new book. I don't know, I don't care! She's just not reliable, especially after lunch.”
J.E. Freeman - Lt. Quinn
Holly Hunter - M.J. Monahan

“- Tracy Freeland: Mom, I have to go to the bathroom now!
- Melanie Freeland: Can't you hold it a minute?
- Tracy Freeland: That's how you get a bladder infection, you child abuser.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Tracy Freeland
Holly Hunter - Melanie Freeland

“- Bob's Wife: It was never my intention to break up a home. I come from a strong solid family background; my parents have been married for 25 years...
- Judith Moore: Wow, you sound great! Can I fuck you?”
Tamlyn Tomita - Bob's Wife
Holly Hunter - Judith Moore

“- Dashiell 'Dash' Parr: Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of, our powers made us special.
- Helen Parr: Everyone's special.
- Dashiell 'Dash' Parr: Which is another way of saying no one is.”
Spencer Fox - Dashiell 'Dash' Parr
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr

“- Tommy: She flashed me Claud, she flashed me.
- Claudia: Welcome home!”

Robert Downey Jr. - Tommy
Holly Hunter - Claudia

My husband writes that my muteness does not bother him - and hark this! He says: "God loves dumb creatures, so why not I?". It was good he had God's patience, for silence affects everyone in the end.

Holly Hunter - Ada

“You have more power than you realize. Don't think, and don't worry. If the time comes, you'll know what to do. It's in your blood.”

Holly Hunter - Helen Parr

“I used to be dangerous. I don't know what happened.”
Holly Hunter - Judith Moore

“- Flora: How did you speak to him?
- Ada: I didn't need to speak. I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet.
- Flora: Why didn't you get married?
- Ada: He became frightened and stopped listening.”

Anna Paquin - Flora
Holly Hunter - Ada

“Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch on Saturday mornings? These guys aren't like those guys. They won't exercise restraint because you are children. They will kill you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance.”

Holly Hunter - Elastigirl

“- Claudia: Joanne, huh? What a dick.
- Tommy: I'm impervious. It's in one ear, out the other. Life goes on.”

Holly Hunter - Claudia
Robert Downey Jr. - Tommy

“- Aaron Altman: I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.
- Jane Craig: Oh, Bubba.
- Aaron Altman: I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Albert Brooks - Aaron Altman
Holly Hunter - Aaron Altman

“- M.J. Monahan: Oh great, the mouth is here.
- Reuben Goetz: Well, you can end her career, just pop her in the brachial nerve and she's gotta drop the microphone.
- M.J. Monahan: That's a thought.”

Holly Hunter - M.J. Monahan
Dermot Mulroney - Reuben Goetz

“- Joanne: If I just met you on the street... if you gave me your phone number... I'd throw it away.
- Claudia: Well, we don't have to like each other, Jo. We're family.”
Cynthia Stevenson - Joanne
Holly Hunter - Claudia

“- Ed: You mean you busted out of jail.
- Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
- Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.”
Holly Hunter - Ed
William Forsythe - Evelle
John Goodman - Gale

“- Tammy Hemphill: Mitch sent me to tell you the plan's been changed.
- Ray McDeere: I didn't know there was a plan.
- Tammy Hemphill: Well, that's good, because it's been changed.”
Holly Hunter - Tammy Hemphill
David Strathairn - Ray McDeere

“- Jane Craig: You like me, huh?
- Tom Grunick: I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.”
Holly Hunter - Jane Craig
William Hurt - Tom Grunick

“I love you, Pete... but I'm not enjoying it.”
Holly Hunter - Dorinda Durston

“The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six-years-old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last.”

Holly Hunter - Ada