Emma Thompson Quotes

• Diets are the best way of confusing your metabolism for the rest of your life. Just be you & get on with it.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Best, Diets

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

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine, Satisfaction

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Great

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

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Husband

• 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

• 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

• There is that thing about not working with animals and children – I don’t think that’s true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Working

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

• 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

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

• 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

• My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels – and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Self

• London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Victims, Cruelty

• It’s not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Poor, Fault, Governments

• If you’re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you’ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commercial, Motive

• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Disease

• 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

• 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.

  Emma Thompson

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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