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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Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't really have my finger on the pulse, as Phryne Fisher does, of the fashion industry.
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
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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 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 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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I personally don't resent having my children.
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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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 feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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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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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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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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I never said I wanted to be a movie star.
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Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.
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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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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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Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.
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Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
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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.