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Essie Davis Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 7, 1970

Topics

Actor Way Everything Because Well

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Ambition Win Help Way Never Club

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

Age Character View Point Of View

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

Feel You Play Now Actor Way

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

King Name You Know Drummer Never

It's about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw 'Spelling Bee.' I said to myself, 'That's the greatest show ever, and I can't believe I'm not a part of it.' I felt the only way I'm going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in 'Spelling Bee.'

Good Live Myself New York Bee New

A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don't think liberals get to own the culture.

Culture People Theatre Think Own

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

Nature People Evil Eye Questions

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

God Memory Body Remembering Bamboo

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'

Nobody Street Watching Afternoon

The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.

Change Level Only Idea Conventional

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

Children Woman Mom Prison Bad She

I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover.

Shenaz Treasury

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