Essie Davis Quotes

Essie Davis

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 7, 1970

I want to have the great roles that move people profoundly. I want to have the choice and be given the opportunity to play those roles, and unfortunately, fame plays a huge part in 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 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 personally don't resent having my children.

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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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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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'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

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I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining a career in Australia.

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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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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 grew up with a love of words.

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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 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 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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'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 do like having a private life.

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I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

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Goals are essentially private things.

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