Essie Davis Quotes

I never said I wanted to be a movie star.

Essie Davis

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• Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • World
  • Small
  • Movies

• Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Courage
  • Beauty
  • Birth

• I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Family
  • Love
  • Attention

• The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Earth
  • Parent
  • Pressures

• When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Equipoise

• To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, ‘Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Risk
  • Movies
  • Make

• Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Vote
  • Bipartisan

• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Science

• You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Light

• I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Comedian

• I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Night
  • Girls
  • Dreaming

• I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Experience
  • Stage
  • Laws

• L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.

  

  Topher Grace
  • School
  • Imagine
  • Movie Star

• The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • World
  • Calm
  • I Wanted

• I like to write a lot of satire.

  

  Earl King
  • Like
  • Write
  • Satire

• Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Lady
  • Vodka
  • Jumped

• The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Matter
  • Answers
  • Careers

• Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • England
  • Optimism
  • Ending

• I never said I wanted to be a movie star.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Movie Star
  • I Wanted