Linda Hunt

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

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These are some quotes by American author Linda Hunt Actress, who was born on April 2, 1945.

Quotes by Linda Hunt

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Linda Hunt

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Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

Linda Hunt

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I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

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