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Actress

Hope Davis, born on March 23, 1964, is a talented American actress. She has played significant roles in numerous film and television productions, winning the admiration of audiences with her exquisite acting skills and unique artistic style.

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

Play Girl Suicide Suicidal Dreary

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

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“Storytelling is what lights my fire.”

Light Fire Storytelling

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

Thinking Clinton Most Amazing Amazing Woman

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“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.”

Ifs Made Ends Film Gone Lucky Projects Combination Pet Chasing

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

Years Film Enjoy

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

Way Looks Realizing Reflection Treats Treat Yourself

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

People Knows Feels Heartache People With Depression Profound Sadness

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“I get to play a lot of hysterics.”

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

Children Taken Husband

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

Long Havens Long Time Nails Salons

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

People Whole Laughing

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

Giving Stories Easy Century Perspective Give Me Love Story 21st Century American Life

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

Children Two Small Child

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

Heartbeat Splendor Schmidt

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

Home New Yorkers

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

Too Much Analyzing

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

Children High Strung

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“I'm way too disorganized.”

Way Disorganized

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

Different States United Cities United States Towns Fiction And Nonfiction Cities And Towns

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“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.”

World Persons Character Easy Negative Instant

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“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.”

Hard Shows Running Jobs Actors Committees

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

Mother Needed Dad My Dad Shirts Iron

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

People Knows Feels Wells Lines Know How Crazy

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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.”

“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.”

Knows Kind Littles I Can Sometimes Hands Moving Left Bits Natural Steps Feet Sky Little Bit Standing Welcome Planes Metals Tubes Standing There Natural Things Left Hand

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“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.”

Years Wells Children Young Too Much Twenties Therapy Girlfriend My Girlfriend Young Children Analyzing

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“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.”

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“I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.”

Different Country States United Cities Fiction United States Strange Tradition Towns Institutions Fascinating Working It Nonfiction Textbooks Fiction And Nonfiction Cities And Towns

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“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.”

Character Humanity Difficult Interesting Notes Solve Evolve Sunny

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“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.”

Want Kind Mean Play Courses Given Prepared Clinton Youtube Fingertips Winging It

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Helping Speak Class Nice Drink Sitting Asking Luck Scary Coaches Flying Planes Good Luck First Class Really Sad

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About the Author

Born: March 23, 1964
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 32

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