Essie Davis Quotes
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There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
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It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.
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It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
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Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.
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I would love to get a job in France!
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I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.
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I never said I wanted to be a movie star.
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I think my morals are perfectly... tight!
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Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.
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Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.
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I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
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Goals are essentially private things.
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I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are far more acting opportunities in London and New York than in Sydney, where there are approximately seven actors that you see over and over again in every play.
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The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.
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Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.
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Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny.
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I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.
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I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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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.
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One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.
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People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.