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It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.
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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.
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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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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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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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Without the ice, the earth will fall
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I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.
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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 want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.
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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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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.
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I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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I 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.
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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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