Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompsonis a British actress, a comedian, and a writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 April 1959
CityLondon, England
fall ice earth
Without the ice, the earth will fall
fall artist challenges
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.
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.
hard time wander
It was a hard time but you have to get on with things.You can't wander around miserable.
longer took
It took them longer to get me dolled up for Elinor in Sense And Sensibility because it took so long to do the hair.