Essie Davis Quotes

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I find I'm an old soul.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

I believed that I could age people with my mind. If I looked at them, wrinkles would form, and if I looked away, they would suddenly, magically get younger.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.