Emma Thompson Quotes

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• The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
• 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…
• The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
• 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.…
• 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…
• It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be…
• Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
• I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.
• I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
• 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 have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
• We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for…
• I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or…
• Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
• What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
• We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
• I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with…
• Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.
• Without the ice, the earth will fall
• Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

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