Helen Hunt

“It's so funny when people ask, 'What happened to you?'... There's a difference between working hard and being famous.”

“It felt impossible not to internalise the way you're supposed to look. And [there was] a certain amount of misery and shame around not looking exactly that way.”

“I realised, 'This could quietly ruin your whole life.' I made a decision: I'm not playing. Not gonna [let it] take up a lot of space in my mind.”

“It just felt time to take a few years off.”

“Everybody around you says, 'But you've worked so hard to get to this point, what is your follow-up thing?' But you can't control whether something wonderful comes along after something like [the Oscar win] happens.”

“There were a couple of years when I was a little spooked.”