Essie Davis Quotes
I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Music is about the performance.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
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Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.
