Emma Thompson Quotes - Page 4

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• I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

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  Bottles, Typical, Film

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• I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

  Emma Thompson

  Hate, Order, Trying

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• ~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

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  Kids, Parenting, Thinking

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• I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

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  Technique

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

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  Nice, Writing, Tables

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

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  Book, Writing, Los Angeles

  "Thompson plays dual roles in 'Sense and Sensibility'" by Sherry Dean, www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Filmmaker

  Emma Thompson (1996). “The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film”, Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks

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• 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.

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  Awards, Empires, Bitter

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• I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Race

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• Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

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  Dream, Space, Goal

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

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  Friends, New York, Gay

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• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

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  Hurt, Forgiving, May

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

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  Gorgeous, Fireman, British

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• [Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

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  Family, Leadership, Wisdom

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• It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

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  Grateful, Night, Cold

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• 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.

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  Writing, Groups, Different

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• Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

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  High Heels, Painful, Heels

  "Comfort is cool as flat shoes cut it in the fashion stakes" by Zoe Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

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  Effort, Mind, Looks

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

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  Important, Different, Hiv

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• The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

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  Running, Home, People

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

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  Father, Thinking, Nannies

  Interview with Andrew Marr, news.bbc.co.uk. March 28, 2010.

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• Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

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  Love Is, Fire, Soul

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• I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

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  Voice, Wells, Voice Of God

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• Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

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  Actors, Way, Speak

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

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  Mother, Daughter, Husband

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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