Essie Davis Quotes
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I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.
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I want to have the great roles that move people profoundly. I want to have the choice and be given the opportunity to play those roles, and unfortunately, fame plays a huge part in that.
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I think every character rubs off on you a little bit.
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I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.
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I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining a career in Australia.
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Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.
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I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.
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I want to carry a really great role in a great film.
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There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.
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There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.
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I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.
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I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.
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I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.
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I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It was really fun, but for me, I look at it as a training film, and I'm not really proud of my work in it.
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Sometimes it's easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it's hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.
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Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
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I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you've run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.
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'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.
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It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
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It's nice being married to somebody who thinks you've got something better in you.
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There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.