Bonnie Hunt

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

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.

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

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.

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

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'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!'

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Humor is very healing.