Emma Thompson Quotes
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We all need somewhere where we feel safe
— Emma Thompson
My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
— Emma Thompson
Why do we wear them? They're so painful.
— Emma Thompson
My worst quality is impatience.
— Emma Thompson
A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
— Emma Thompson
Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.
— Emma Thompson
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
— Emma Thompson
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
— Emma Thompson
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
— Emma Thompson
The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.
— Emma Thompson
Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
— Emma Thompson
Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
— Emma Thompson
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
— Emma Thompson
Without the ice, the earth will fall
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I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.
— Emma Thompson
It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.
— Emma Thompson
Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
— Emma Thompson
It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
— Emma Thompson
Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.
— Emma Thompson
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
— Emma Thompson
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
— Emma Thompson
I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
— Emma Thompson
Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.
— Emma Thompson
Piracy is our only option.
— Emma Thompson
You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
— Emma Thompson
What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.
— Emma Thompson
There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
— Emma Thompson
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
— Emma Thompson
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
— Emma Thompson
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
— Emma Thompson
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
— Emma Thompson
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
— Emma Thompson
(On period costume posture coachingWe all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson
I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.
— Emma Thompson
I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
— Emma Thompson
Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
— Emma Thompson
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
— Emma Thompson
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
— Emma Thompson
I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
— Emma Thompson
Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, 'If I were gay, you'd be the one.' and I said, 'I'm there!'
— Emma Thompson
Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.
— Emma Thompson
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
— Emma Thompson
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
— Emma Thompson
I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
— Emma Thompson
Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.
— Emma Thompson
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
— Emma Thompson
I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.
— Emma Thompson
Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie. — Emma Thompson
When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay. But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go
— Emma Thompson
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
— Emma Thompson
I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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