Hope Davis Quotes

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

I'm basically a starving artist.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

As children we had traveled only in cars and led a lavish lifestyle. After father and we parted ways, we had little money to afford even petrol; I used to travel to the Tollygunge studios in the south of the city from our Dumdum home in the north by bus. I would do any role that came my way: hero's friend, or brother, or son, just about anything.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Whether it's New York or somewhere else, the metaphor of 'Avenue Q,' which is the place you live when you can't afford to live anywhere else - and we've all been through that in our journey. As I always say, at any moment I could be back on Avenue Q if I pick the wrong show.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.