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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.

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use
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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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I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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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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My worst quality is impatience.
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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.
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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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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.
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It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.
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The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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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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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
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