Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompsonis a British actress, a comedian, and a writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 April 1959
CityLondon, England
country thinking impact
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
country war thinking
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.
country thinking america
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas
country children people
It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?
names winston
I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash,
changed english-actress groups large ordinary people planet saying
The way, I think, anything has ever really changed on this planet is through large groups of very ordinary people saying something finally.
gets given name names sort thinking
Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise, ... I've sort of given up thinking of names now.
certainly charities developing english-actress huge took trouble
I think if you took charities and NGOs out of the mix, certainly in developing countries, you would find that there would be huge trouble immediately.
children terrible
I think it would be terrible if what children come away (with) from this movie was that you've always got to behave. No! Not so!
opposite reached
Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.
nanny react
She was the only one that didn't react to me when I was in Nanny mode.
people sleeve
Let's see how this one goes, but I have one up my sleeve if we think that people want it.
art excited interest office people post starting
There is a lot of interest in post office art today, I think people are appreciating what we have, ... We're excited and starting to look up to see what's there, and that is my purpose.
lovely
It's lovely to be here, and at least it's, you know, no effort.