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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We all need somewhere where we feel safe

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.

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.

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

We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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