Bonnie Hunt

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something. ”

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible. ”

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. ”

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having. ”

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. ”

I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do. ”

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. ”

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them. ”

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. ”

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid. ”