“I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, an...” — Essie Davis Quote

“I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.”

“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.”

“Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.”

“At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.”

“When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.”