Essie Davis Quotes

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

I've been really, really fortunate to get some fantastic opportunities on Broadway, and I cherish all of them.

I'd been lucky to do radio drama and RTE things. Having the opportunity to work with Netflix was wild to me but I'm still just a wee girl from Donegal.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.

I've been very blessed to work with some of the biggest in the game.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's still a small city. To come from there, to work with Will. i. am... it's like, 'What happened?! What did I do right?'

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.