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If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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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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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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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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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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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 think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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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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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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I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
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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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Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.
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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 trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
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Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.
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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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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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