Emily Mortimer Quotes

• 51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Character

• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me ‘Em’ and shout across the bar, ‘Em, what are you drinking?’ after the show.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Friends

• I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that’s really where you have to be. But I’m not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one’s sense of self.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in America, Work

  Tags in Film

• I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn’t do very much else.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Enormous

• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they’re beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, School, Girls

• But I have to grow out of it, because it’s very boring, really. Even when you’re telling people how crap you are, you’re still banging on about yourself.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boring, Yourself

• I did my homework and didn’t go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Dreamed

• I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn’t confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Growing, Confident

• So far I haven’t really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

  Emily Mortimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critical, Attention

• The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else’s shoes.

  Emily Mortimer

• So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven’t realised.

  Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer (11)

Birth:	1st December, 1971
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Screenwriter

About

Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer was born in Hammersmith, London, England. She is an English actress and screenwriter. Her first feature film role was opposite Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness, also in 1996. She is also known for playing roles in Lars and the Real Girl, Harry Brown, Shutter Island, and Hugo. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. Before becoming an actress, she wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph, and was screenwriter for an adaptation of Lorna Sage's memoir, Bad Blood. She worked in a TV adaptation of Dame Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin. Subsequent TV roles included Sharpe's Sword and Coming Home.

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