Emma Thompson famous quotes

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
-- Emma Thompson

#Wish #Unfortunate #Humans

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
-- Emma Thompson

#Children #Animal #Thinking

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
-- Emma Thompson

#Mean #Should #Aspects Of Life

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.
-- Emma Thompson

#Weekend #What Matters #Sometimes

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
-- Emma Thompson

#Book #Reading #Thinking

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.
-- Emma Thompson

#Two #Switching #Flashback

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.
-- Emma Thompson

#Book #Believe #Greatness

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.
-- Emma Thompson

#Real #Preparation #Different

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
-- Emma Thompson

#Communication #Listening #Problem

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
-- Emma Thompson

#Witty #People #Funeral

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
-- Emma Thompson

#Lying #Mean #Thinking

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
-- Emma Thompson

#Birthday #Broken Heart #Grief

My worst quality is impatience.
-- Emma Thompson

#Quality #Impatience #Worst

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
-- Emma Thompson

#Sex #Communication #Fighting

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
-- Emma Thompson

#Children #Technology #Watches

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
-- Emma Thompson

#Pie #Satisfaction #Faces

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.
-- Emma Thompson

#Rights #Needs #Shelter

When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.
-- Emma Thompson

#Giving #Support #Quality

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.
-- Emma Thompson

#Taken #Responsibility #Thinking

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
-- Emma Thompson

#Country #Thinking #Impact

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
-- Emma Thompson

#Effort #Mind #Looks

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
-- Emma Thompson

#Thinking #Tyrants #Done

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
-- Emma Thompson

#Beautiful #Pain #Thinking

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
-- Emma Thompson

#Hurt #Forgiving #May

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
-- Emma Thompson

#Change #Communication #Thinking

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.
-- Emma Thompson

#Laughter #Celebration #Failing

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use
-- Emma Thompson

#Religious #Leader #Catholic

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.
-- Emma Thompson

#Morning #Flower #Glasses

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use
-- Emma Thompson

#Religious #Sex #Uganda

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.
-- Emma Thompson

#Two #People #Awful

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.
-- Emma Thompson

#Sky #Blue #Want

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
-- Emma Thompson

#Differences #Expectations #Events

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.
-- Emma Thompson

#Stories #Ever After #Happily Ever After

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
-- Emma Thompson

#Feelings #Fancy

Piracy is our only option.
-- Emma Thompson

#Piracy

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
-- Emma Thompson

#People #Sides #Film

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
-- Emma Thompson

#Love #Life #Sex

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
-- Emma Thompson

#Lying #Knowledge #Mean

Without the ice, the earth will fall
-- Emma Thompson

#Fall #Ice #Earth

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.
-- Emma Thompson

#Trying #Looks #Littles

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
-- Emma Thompson

#Age #Looks #Aging

We all need somewhere where we feel safe
-- Emma Thompson

#Needs #Safe #Feels

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
-- Emma Thompson

#Writing #Matter #Desks

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
-- Emma Thompson

#Feelings #Global Warming #Guilty

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 give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
-- Emma Thompson

#Daughter #Baby #Helping Others

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
-- Emma Thompson

#Mom #Children #Kids

I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.
-- Emma Thompson

#Country #War #Thinking

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~
-- Emma Thompson

#Kids #Parenting #Thinking

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
-- Emma Thompson

#Needs #Pennies #Cigarette

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...
-- Emma Thompson

#Love Is #Fire #Soul

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
-- Emma Thompson

#Daughter #Mother #Husband

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
-- Emma Thompson

#Writing #Groups #Different