Emily Blunt Quotes

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

You can go at the premiere it's at Disneyland.

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I would love to be on Broadway!

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?