Essie Davis

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from. ”

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. ”

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway. ”

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate. ”

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. ”

Goals are essentially private things. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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