Essie Davis Quotes

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.

Essie Davis

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• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Play
  • Back
  • Coming

• I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• I love that I can play around with all types of music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Play
  • Types

• I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.

  

  Bill Flores
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• When you're a Republican Latino, you're traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Road

• Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Choices

• There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Opportunity
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• It was a bad game all the way around. The good thing about this league is that we have an opportunity to bounce back the next night.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Regret
  • Misused

• I was interviewing Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris for a Bond film a few years ago, and the moment I sat down, my dress ripped. No more bodycon numbers for me. I had to walk out of the room backwards when I was done.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Done

• I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

  

  Confucius
  • Purpose
  • Armies
  • Commanding

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Choice