Emily Mortimer Quotes

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• I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up…
• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You…
• You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.
• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you…
• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's…
• I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be…
• I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about…
• I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
• I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic…
• Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.
• Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather…
• I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and…
• I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm…
• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never…
• I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing…
• I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.
• I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
• I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
• I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in…
• I want to discover more things about acting.

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