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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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The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
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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!
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
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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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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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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 think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
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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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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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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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My worst quality is impatience.
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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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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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