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. – Bonnie Hunt
Because I’ve been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I’ve learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are. – Bonnie Hunt
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope. – Bonnie Hunt
If you’re authentic, people smile because they sense there’s a piece of themselves there. – Bonnie Hunt
All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt
I’m a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart. – Bonnie Hunt
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. – Bonnie Hunt