Hope Davis Quotations

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

Usually the wife and mother who's left behind is the wronged one, the one holding the family together, ... In this case, she's just as self-absorbed as he is and isn't too much better with the kids.

We're trying to help express community outrage and make sure this doesn't happen again,

We kind of don't know how to feel. But 'Infamous' is a very different film. It's different in tone. It involves kind of a larger cast of characters.

Sometimes being real means being unsympathetic, ... I don't worry too much about being liked. That's not my first priority. I'd rather play someone people might identify with. If I sign on to do something I believe in, I'm trying to play what the writer wrote. And I hope that the audience will understand where the character is coming from.

It's the way I want it to be.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film. What was hard was when I came to London for ( Proof ) rehearsals, (and) I had to leave her. But it's good for her to see that I work. I'm home all the rest of the time. It doesn't feel sad now.

In the case of these two siblings I was really interested in exploring how two people who grew up in the same damaged and strange household emerged with such divergent world views. I don't mind at all being the bossy one or the pushy one. She was a very juicy character for me to play.

Claire is a role that easily could be unsympathetic and one-dimensional, but the always wonderful Davis softens her intrusiveness with genuine concern for her sister.

He's really not like other people. He marches to the beat of a different drummer. (Working opposite him) he's very unpredictable. He's always coming at it with a new twist, so it was really interesting. He's extremely inventive.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

I'm way too disorganized.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

I could relate to that, ... I'm a Vassar girl. We were taught to stand up for ourselves.

I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.

I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'

The film's interested in exploring how two siblings, who grew up in the same house, could have such divergent world views.