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The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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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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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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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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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 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'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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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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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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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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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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I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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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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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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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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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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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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I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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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 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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