Essie Davis Quotes
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'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It was really fun, but for me, I look at it as a training film, and I'm not really proud of my work in it.
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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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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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There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.
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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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I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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I think my morals are perfectly... tight!
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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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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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It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.
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I personally don't resent having my children.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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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 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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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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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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Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
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I do like having a private life.
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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.
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.
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As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
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I never said I wanted to be a movie star.
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I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.