Essie Davis

“Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.”

“'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 i...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.”

“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.”

“Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.”

“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 Natio...”

“I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are...”