63 Quotes by Hope Davis

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.