Emma Thompson Quotes

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

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.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

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

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

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.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

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

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

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

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

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.

Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

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.

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

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

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

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...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.