Essie Davis Quotes
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I personally don't resent having my children.
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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 would love to get a job in France!
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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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Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.
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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'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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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 feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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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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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 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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Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny.
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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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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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I think my morals are perfectly... tight!
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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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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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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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I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.