Essie Davis Quotes

I've always looked old for my age.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.

I personally feel like I do look 28 - I never have seen anyone who told me I looked over 35.

With my face, everybody always thinks I'm so young, this little guy.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

I know I look super young.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

It makes me look so old.

I'm not saying my own looks don't give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain't gonna do it.

You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.

My wife is very fit and looking younger every day, whereas I'm looking older day by day.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.