Essie Davis Quotes
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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 grew up with a love of words.
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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 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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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 personally don't resent having my children.
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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'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 feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.
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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 think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.
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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 never said I wanted to be a movie star.
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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 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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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.