"It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is……" — Emma Thompson
"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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97 Quotes by Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson has 97 quotes on this site.
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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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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…
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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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I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You…
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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.…
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It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What…
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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 present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.
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I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain…
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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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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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