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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
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I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.
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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.
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Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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