Emma Thompson Quotes

• One is a child when one has a child. No one says, ‘You will never be the same again.’ Which is the truth! And we’re all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Child

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Film

• Children are the most wonderful audiences. What’s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wonderful, Audience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Appearance

• During an election, it’s like they’re doing my job: they’re going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it’s the same thing.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Election

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Acting, World

• If you don’t want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights

• We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think, Consumerism

• The fact is that young people are going to have s*x whether you like it or not.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Young, Generation

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

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Mind

• My worst quality is impatience.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quality

• 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

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genuinely, Different, Groups

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

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, British, Knowing

• A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Women

• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It’s due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time – about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Decisions, Effort

  Tags in Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Care

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in People, Yourself

• The fact is that young people are going to have s*x whether you like it or not.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Young, Generation

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

Emma Thompson (57)

Birth:	15th April, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Author, Comedian, Screenwriter

About

Emma Thompson was born in Paddington, London, UK. She is a British actress, comedian, author, and screenwriter. She was educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. After appearing in several comedy programmes, she first came to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work in both. Her first film role came in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. She scripted and starred in 1995's Sense and Sensibility, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress.  She has also authored two books, The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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