Hope Davis Quotes

• 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.’

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

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• I feel like I’m one of the happiest people I know.

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• I get to play a lot of hysterics.

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• I do smaller films, I’m not getting big paydays. I feel like we’re just kind of scraping together here.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• There’s nothing I love more than a good cry.

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• Storytelling is what lights my fire.

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

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

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Hope Davis (32)

Birth:	23rd March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Hope Davis was born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. She is an American actress. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in cognitive science. Her role in several films include: About Schmidt, American Splendor, The Special Relationship( received Emmy Award nomination), Flatliners, The Daytrippers, Arlington Road, Hearts in Atlantis, The Weather Man, The Hoax, Charlie Bartlett, Genova, The Lodger, The Family Tree, and Wild Card. Her role in television include: Deadline, Six Degrees, In Treatment(received Emmy Award nomination), The Newsroom, Allegiance, Wayward Pines, and American Crime. For her role in the original Broadway production of God of Carnage in 2009, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

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