Emma Thompson Quotes

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  Diets are the best way of confusing your metabolism for the rest of your life. Just be you & get on with it.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Best, Diets

• I don’t have technique because I never learnt any.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Technique

• It’s not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Poor, Fault, Governments

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angry, Religious, Leaders

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heartbreak, Times

• I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by I I 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Social Responsibility, Governments

• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don’t really talk about s*x 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Leaders

• It’s 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

  Topics in Humanity

• I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic – basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Market, Forces

• We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about s*x honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communication, Men And Women

• 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

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in World

• The trouble is it’s very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Levels

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Crisis, Masochistic

• If you’re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you’ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commercial, Motive

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unfortunate, Human Beings

• What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Families, Enjoy

• There is that thing about not working with animals and children – I don’t think that’s true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Working

• London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Victims, Cruelty

• 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

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Disease

• My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels – and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Self

Emma Thompson (57)

Birth:	15th April, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Author, Comedian, Screenwriter

About

Emma Thompson was born in Paddington, London, UK. She is a British actress, comedian, author, and screenwriter. She was educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. After appearing in several comedy programmes, she first came to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work in both. Her first film role came in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. She scripted and starred in 1995's Sense and Sensibility, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress.  She has also authored two books, The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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