Essie Davis Quotes
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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I love doing kids' films.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
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I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
