Emma Thompson 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

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

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

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

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

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

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

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

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

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

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.

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

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.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

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.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

My worst quality is impatience.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

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.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

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.

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

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

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

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

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

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.

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.

Piracy is our only option.

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.

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

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

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

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.

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.

It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

We all need somewhere where we feel safe