Essie Davis
Related ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I WYNTON MARSALIS GRETCHEN RUBIN ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really pers... BOY GEORGE EARL CAMPBELL HARLAND WILLIAMS Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE OWAIN YEOMAN If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING I CHING ELIZABETH I FERDINAND I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I CHARLES I BAUDOUIN I ELIZABETH I I CHING FAROUK I CHARLES I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words. EYDEN I. ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. STANISLAUS I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti... To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to... Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of... Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d... If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
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There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camarader... ESSIE DAVIS 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ... ESSIE DAVIS One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every ch... ESSIE DAVIS People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring... ESSIE DAVIS Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else. ESSIE DAVIS Even though I love fashion and the red carpet dresses are a great, fun, glorious thing, I don't ... ESSIE DAVIS Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do. ESSIE DAVIS 'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has bee... ESSIE DAVIS There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I... ESSIE DAVIS I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be ... ESSIE DAVIS I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ... ESSIE DAVIS I think every character rubs off on you a little bit. ESSIE DAVIS I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I th... ESSIE DAVIS I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough. ESSIE DAVIS Acting is embarrassing. ESSIE DAVIS It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I ... ESSIE DAVIS Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work. ESSIE DAVIS I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted. ESSIE DAVIS I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it&... ESSIE DAVIS Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny. ESSIE DAVIS I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'... ESSIE DAVIS Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of c... ESSIE DAVIS I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home. ESSIE DAVIS I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home,... ESSIE DAVIS As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaugh... ESSIE DAVIS It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them. ESSIE DAVIS Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment. ESSIE DAVIS I think my morals are perfectly... tight! ESSIE DAVIS Why are you trying to kill us? ESSIE DEBONET I think it's wonderful. The Senate showed their concerns for people. ESSIE DEBONET We're hoping that the House shows the same caring and consideration and compassion that the Senate j... ESSIE DEBONET For some reason, post players think they can beat me and maybe get overconfident. I am squirmy. I ca... ESSIE BAIRD That was my personality coming out on the floor. That is who I am. ESSIE BAIRD The leap in time is huge for me. I know that this is my last competitive sport and I want it to take... ESSIE BAIRD I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it&... MACKENZIE DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS JIM DAVIS I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an... WENDY DAVIS ERIC DAVIS EVAN DAVIS We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante... ANTHONY DAVIS PATTI DAVIS I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased an... DONALD DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS TAMRA DAVIS Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. JIMMIE DAVIS WADE DAVIS WADE DAVIS WADE DAVIS WADE DAVIS WADE DAVIS I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't. WENDY DAVIS Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with ... WENDY DAVIS While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few faci... WENDY DAVIS I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or fo... WENDY DAVIS Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there. WENDY DAVIS We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you... WENDY DAVIS I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV. WENDY DAVIS Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's e... WENDY DAVIS When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get t... WENDY DAVIS As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GO... WENDY DAVIS When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from... WENDY DAVIS We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels... WENDY DAVIS I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say... WENDY DAVIS I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi... WENDY DAVIS I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, eve... WENDY DAVIS I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard w... WENDY DAVIS I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate ... WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system. 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It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in ea... PAIGE DAVIS College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back. OSSIE DAVIS Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, i... OSSIE DAVIS I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. OSSIE DAVIS CLIVE DAVIS It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every ... MACKENZIE DAVIS Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such ... MACKENZIE DAVIS If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not pe... MACKENZIE DAVIS As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring ou... MACKENZIE DAVIS I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon. MACKENZIE DAVIS I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they want... MACKENZIE DAVIS I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and stro... MACKENZIE DAVIS I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the... MACKENZIE DAVIS I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now t... MACKENZIE DAVIS I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an elem... MACKENZIE DAVIS I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature... MACKENZIE DAVIS I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thi... MACKENZIE DAVIS Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say... MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It... MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what ... MACKENZIE DAVIS I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are no... MACKENZIE DAVIS How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you wa... MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get m... MACKENZIE DAVIS I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride'... MACKENZIE DAVIS I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't ge... MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking ev... MACKENZIE DAVIS I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it. MACKENZIE DAVIS I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on an... MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably qui... MACKENZIE DAVIS I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, th... MACKENZIE DAVIS Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elv... MAC DAVIS Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta w... MAC DAVIS First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back e... MAC DAVIS I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elv... MAC DAVIS I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it. MAC DAVIS I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to... MAC DAVIS I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. MAC DAVIS I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people&#... MAC DAVIS I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the ki... MAC DAVIS I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis... MAC DAVIS It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. MAC DAVIS There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather out... MAC DAVIS In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. MAC DAVIS One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written. MAC DAVIS I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis wa... MAC DAVIS Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you th... MAC DAVIS If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did se... MAC DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS BETTE DAVIS
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think ... 
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study... 
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... 
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you'... 
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that. 
I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask m... 
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I w... 
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... 
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... 
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... 
Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... 
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... 
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... 
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... 
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. 
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... 
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. 
I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be... 
I stop short of being a workaholic. 
I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek. 
I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ... 
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame o... 
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. 
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making... 
A mom can't afford to be sick. 
It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood. 
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture. 
Change is no threat to culture. 
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't... 
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, ve... 
But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director'... 
When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and ... 
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's a... 
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. 
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra... 
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it ... 
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. 
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a chi... 
Sex is God's joke on human beings. 