"We belabour, I think, under a very heavy……" — Emma Thompson
"We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really"
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97 Quotes by Emma Thompson
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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…
- 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…
- Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here.…
- It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What…
- 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…
- 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…