Latest Emily Blunt Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Expression, Empathy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

  Emily Blunt

  Roles, Looks, Asking

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

• It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

  Emily Blunt

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Order, Sound

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

  Emily Blunt

  Strong, People, Work Out

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.

  Emily Blunt

  Long, Scene

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

• I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

  Emily Blunt

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It's nice to play someone who is naive.

  Emily Blunt

  Nice, Play, Naive

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.

  Emily Blunt

  Fun, Real, Character

  "Emily Blunt on THE WOLFMAN, GULLIVER’S TRAVELS and THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 4, 2009.

• I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Talking, Cooking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

• I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Roles, Looks

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

• I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

• When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

  Emily Blunt

  Mean, Play, Skins

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

• You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Fighting, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

• It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Choices, Acting

  "Elton John, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt Interview, Gnomeo & Juliet". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. January 2011.

• My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

  Emily Blunt

  Feelings, Stories, Cry

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2012.

• I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

  Emily Blunt

  Spontaneous, Feels, Persons

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2012.

• I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

  Emily Blunt

  Helping, Married, States

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.

• The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

  Emily Blunt

  Able, Mask

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.

• I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We actors do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.

  Emily Blunt

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.

• I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 22, 2014.

• Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

  Emily Blunt

  Way, Should, Persons

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

• I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

  Emily Blunt

  School, Nerd, Forte

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.