58 Quotes by Essie Davis

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.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

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.

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.

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

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.

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.

I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.

I never said I wanted to be a movie star.