Essie Davis Quotes

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I’ve had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career – to aim to never play the same thing twice.

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I want to carry a really great role in a great film.

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I’m a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it’s great. But I’m amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don’t.

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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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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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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 always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn’t see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.

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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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I’m just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.

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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 have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

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There are many books that I love dearly, and I’ve seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven‘t thought were up to scratch.

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I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

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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.

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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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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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Awards and nominations really help sell films.

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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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Even if the Tonys aren’t as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

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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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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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Sometimes it’s easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it’s hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.

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Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

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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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Goals are essentially private things.

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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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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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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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Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny.

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I do like having a private life.

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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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Acting is embarrassing.

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I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you’ve run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.

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I think it’s an actor’s gift to be as old as people think you are.

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I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

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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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Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.

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I would love to get a job in France!

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