Emma Thompson Quotes

• This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning

• We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Jokes, Film

• When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Husband

• You can’t be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren’t ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn’t working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Great

• You can’t imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone’s face.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine, Satisfaction

• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Conflict, Listening, Communication

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

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Learning, Judgment, Listening

• Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Advice, Children

  Tags in Listening

• 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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• Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I’d never dream of. But my real life is very different. It’s very, very home-based – an intense domestic life, that’s the core of everything.

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• I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

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• I don’t mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it’s not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one’s field. Public perks. Like, I don’t know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don’t really talk about s*x and certainly religious leaders – some of them – up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.

  Emma Thompson

• And it’s absolutely true that male s*xual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here?

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• think the point about ActionAid is what it’s asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

  Emma Thompson

• think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I’m trying to communicate with people here and in America – in rich countries – about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

  Emma Thompson

• Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

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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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