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'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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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 have died in enough TV and films.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?
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I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I have no ambition. I am sure that I should, but... I do films when they are proposed. But I never go and look for them.
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
